Censorship Quotes
These are some of the best 'Censorship' quotations and sayings.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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