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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
Category: Censorship Author: Theodore Schroeder
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Category: Censorship Author: Dick Cavett
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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
Category: Censorship Author: David Ben-Gurion
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Category: Censorship Author: John Stuart Mill
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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.
Category: Censorship Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Censorship offends me.
Category: Censorship Author: Author Unknown
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Category: Censorship Author: John F Kennedy
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Category: Censorship Author: Rebecca West
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Category: Censorship Author: Noam Chomsky
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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
Category: Censorship Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Books won\'t stay banned -
Ideas won\'t go to jail.
Category: Censorship Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Category: Censorship Author: Harry Belafonte
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted.
Category: Censorship Author: Jonathon Green
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