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“...like the emperor striding confidently along without clothes, convinced by them and their inward monitions that their criticism is effecting changes in society.”

— Samuel Pickering

“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.”

— Pat Frank

“It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.”

— Frances M. Jones

“How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not…

— Neil Postman

“The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor’s throne.”

— Timothy Zahn

“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.”

— John Updike

“The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to…

— Terry Pratchett

“Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.”

— Marie Vieux-Chauvet

“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.”

— Timothy Shah

“The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.”

— Thomas Jefferson