Another day Quote by Jerome Frank

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

— Robin Morgan

“In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right…

— Ayn Rand

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it…

— Laszlo Radvanyi

“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging…

— Italo Calvino

“Literary censorship should not be necessary within the parameters of the law because it's simply a reflection of prevailing social prejudices! Writing should challenge…

— Jack Tar

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil…

— Anais Nin

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap…

— Oscar Wilde

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

— George W. Bush

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly