<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Censorship - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5417]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5422]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5424]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item></channel></rss>