Avoidance Quote by H. L. Mencken

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful…

— John Mortimer

“Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization”

— Helmut Walser Smith

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's…

— Germaine Greer

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

— John Milton

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no…

— Thomas Jefferson

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because…

— George Orwell

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep…

— Samuel Johnson

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

— Richard Whately

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

— Alan Sugar

“A printer can do the same thing and much more. He can preserve the Law, but he can also preserve the words of madmen.…

— Marek Halter

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their…

— Terry Pratchett