Censorship proverbs
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- John Milton99◆ There must be something in books, something we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.
- Ray Bradbury99◆ When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko99◆ Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
- Mark Twain99◆ Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
- Kurt Vonnegut99◆ What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
- Salman Rushdie99◆ The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .
- Lemony Snicket99◆ Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
- Dwight D. Eisenhower99◆ When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
- George R.R. Martin99◆ If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
- Benjamin Franklin99◆ Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
- Heinrich Heine99◆ There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
- Ray Bradbury99◆ All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
- Kurt Vonnegut99◆ Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
- Peter S. Jennison99◆ Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Boothe Luce98
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