America Quote by Don Marquis Download Open image “Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.” — Don Marquis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Books Freedom Ifs Literature
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run,… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. — C. Edwin Baker Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image