Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
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Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.
Allan Jenkins
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship
Ben Lindsey
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
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I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
James Robinson
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
Ben Lindsay
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Beaumarchais
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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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Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman
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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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