Against Quote by Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

— Anonymous

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of…

— Walter Lippmann

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on…

— Rob Bell

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

— George Bernard Shaw

For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only…

— Umberto Eco

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus…

— Thomas Jefferson

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the…

— George Bernard Shaw