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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, read more
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.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.
Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.
Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society read more
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.
