I like to perhaps give you a four-letter word that starts with an S ends with a T. First time in television, I’m not going to look at you when I say this because this way I can’t get busted. You don’t know who said it. The band said it. Starts with S and ends […]
Censorship Quotes
The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted.
The worst most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument. It becomes almost impossible to conceive of what the suppressed things might […]
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.
All despotisms should be considered problems of mental hygiene, and all support of censorship should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of all censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
