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Censorship Quotes

"You don't have to burn books to destroy culture."

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people"

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind"

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost"

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them"

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race"

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

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