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Offline MysteRy

~ Censorship Quotes ~
« on: April 18, 2016, 09:57:35 PM »
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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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2016, 09:58:48 PM »
[highlight-text]The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Walt Whitman
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2016, 10:00:28 PM »
[highlight-text]Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

Anonymous American Lawyer
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2016, 10:01:11 PM »
[highlight-text]A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Laurence J. Peter
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2016, 10:01:50 PM »
[highlight-text]The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

John Perry Barlow
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« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2016, 10:02:24 PM »
[highlight-text]You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

St. Jerome
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« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2016, 10:03:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Censorship like charity should begin at home; but unlike charity it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce
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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2016, 10:04:22 PM »
[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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« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2016, 10:04:50 PM »
[highlight-text]Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

John Milton
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« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2016, 10:05:23 PM »
[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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« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2016, 10:06:13 PM »
[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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« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2016, 10:06:43 PM »
[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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« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2016, 10:07:11 PM »
[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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« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2016, 10:07:37 PM »
[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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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2016, 10:08:20 PM »
[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
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