"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."

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"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."

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"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."

Tommy Smothers, American Comedian

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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

Don Johnson, American Actor

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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."

Mike Rogers, American Politician

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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."

Ben Lindsey, American Judge

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"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

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"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."

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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."

"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."

"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."

"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."

"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."

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"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."

"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."

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