Censorship quotations
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- Jacques Derrida99◆ Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt99◆ Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
- Salman Rushdie99◆ There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
- Frank Zappa99◆ A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
- Robert A. Heinlein99◆ Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
- Bruce Coville99◆ One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
- Golda Meir99◆ 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 censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw99◆ To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
- Michel de Montaigne99◆ The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
- Bruce Coville99◆ Only the nonreader fears books.
- Richard Peck99◆ I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
- Frank Zappa99◆ You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley99◆ To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
- Claude Adrien Helvétius99◆ 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 else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
- Katherine Paterson99
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