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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we… — Kurt Vonnegut
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with… — Samuel Johnson
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order… — Sean O'Casey
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail… — Max Lerner
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. — Willa Cather
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. — Potter Stewart
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Elias Lyman Magoon
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read… — Robertson Davies
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that… — George Jean Nathan
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological… — Adolf Hitler
Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed. — Adolf Hitler
Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it… — Adolf Hitler
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz
The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They… — Barack Obama
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture… — Chuck Palahniuk
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
Free speech not only lives, it rocks! — Oprah Winfrey
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. — Jack Valenti

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