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=============================Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.  ~ by Lenny BruceIf we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~ by Noam ChomskyInspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~ by Potter StewartWhat progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~ by Sigmund Freud, 1933Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me? ~ by Joseph Henry JacksonBooks 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. ~ by Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ by VoltaireCensorship offends me. ~ by Author UnknownWe 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. ~ by John F. KennedyCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~ by Dick CavettIf 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. ~ by Harold R. MedinaTo reject the word is to reject the human search. ~ by Max Lerner, 1953, on book purgingFreedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~ by Abbott Joseph Liebling, Do You Belong in Journalism? New Yorker, 4 May 1960I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~ by Nancie J. CarmodyEvery 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! ~ by Thomas CarlyleGod forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~ by Rebecca WestThe only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~ by Tommy SmothersTo 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. ~ by Claude-Adrien HelvétiusThe test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~ by David Ben-GurionYou can cage the singer but not the song. ~ by Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988The 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. ~ by Henry Steele CommagerI believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~ by Mae WestWe have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~ by Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764Every burned book enlightens the world. ~ by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe paper burns, but the words fly away. ~ by Akiba ben JosephMore Categories Hair Quotes Sports Volleyball Sayings Goodbye Quotes Pleasure Sayings Learning Quotes Earth Day Sayings Compassion Quotes Procrastination Sayings Worry Quotes Failure Sayings
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