If M. de Becourt’s book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
Censorship Quotes
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confined to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be vindication of his rights to buy, and to read what he pleases.
All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf – that work I abhor – then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone […]
Censorship is like an appendix. When inert, it is useless; when active it is extremely dangerous.
They can’t censor the gleam in my eye.
We seem to have achieved the remarkable situation where nearly half the population is telling the other half what it should be doing and thinking, and checking up that it is doing it.
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
