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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.
Category: Censorship Author: John Stuart Mill
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Category: Censorship Author: Henry Steele Commager
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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Category: Censorship Author: Tommy Smothers
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Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Category: Censorship Author: Potter Stewart
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Category: Censorship Author: Walt Whitman
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.
Category: Censorship Author: Nancie J Carmody
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Category: Censorship Author: John Stuart Mill
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Category: Censorship Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Category: Censorship Author: Abbott Joseph Liebling
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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
Category: Censorship Author: Albert Camus
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To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Category: Censorship Author: Max Lerner
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Category: Censorship Author: Mark Twain
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Category: Censorship Author: Sigmund Freud
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Category: Censorship Author: Heinrich Heine
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
Category: Censorship Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."
Category: Censorship Author: Lenny Bruce
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Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?"
Category: Censorship Author: Joseph Henry Jackson
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If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
Category: Censorship Author: Harold R Medina
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