~ Censorship Quotes ~

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Censorship Quotes


Famous Censorship quotes by popular authors such as Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, John Milton and others.

[highlight-text]Every burned book enlightens the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[highlight-text]The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Walt Whitman

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[highlight-text]Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

Anonymous American Lawyer

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[highlight-text]A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Laurence J. Peter

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[highlight-text]The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

John Perry Barlow

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[highlight-text]You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

St. Jerome

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[highlight-text]Censorship like charity should begin at home; but unlike charity it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce

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[highlight-text]No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

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[highlight-text]Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

John Milton

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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Oscar Wilde

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[highlight-text]No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Samuel Johnson

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[highlight-text]To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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[highlight-text]I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

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[highlight-text]We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

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[highlight-text]If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Voltaire