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I curse when I get really upset. Letting off steam that way makes me feel a little bit better. I’ve been through a lot, but I have never had the urge to go postal. I...

—Oliver Markus

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The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

—Edith Hamilton

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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

—Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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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

—Voltaire

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There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

—Frank Zappa

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Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

—Glenn Greenwald

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You’re sad but you hold everything back…

—Donna Lynn

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… the Chinese have become very good at coming up with puns, alternative words, and memes. For example, they talk about the battle between the grass-mud horse and the river crab. The grass-mud horse, caonima,...

—Michael Anti

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Although erotica authors are being targeted, this is an issue that should concern all indie authors. It affects indies disproportionately because indies are the ones pushing the boundaries of fiction. Indies are the ones out...

—Mark Coker

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet’s father’s ghost and what stays is dry bones.

—Ray Bradbury

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Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.

—Pete Hautman

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To say, ‘don’t have it’, that’s censorship. That’s what is being done. That is what is being said by the control board letter and by the sheriff.

—Allen Lichtenstein

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the...

—George Bernard

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

—Federico Fellini

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I’m a big anti-censorship person,

—Michael Leahy

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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 Vonnegut

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There’s nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

—Margaret Atwood

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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

—Ray Bradbury

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This is censorship of the worst kind.

—Vanessa Redgrave

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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

—Bruce Coville

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If you believe that I’m a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

—Ice-T

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This book is irrelevant to Goodreads because you can’t buy it on Amazon. Also it talks about oppression, censorship etc. and no one really likes reading about that because it’s boring. Yet, let me tell...

—G.R. Reader

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In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [Master and Margarita] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains – editing, and it’s going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to...

—Mikhail Bulgakov

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer – he steps forth like a...

—Laurence Sterne

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To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

—Michel de

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I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don’t need to ‘control’ free speech, we need to control ourselves.

—Peggy Noonan

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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

—Alberto Manguel

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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

—Geraldine Brooks

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

—Clare Boothe

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For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, ‘To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.’ (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

—Margaret Bald

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They told me I was not to draw.

—Mike Diana

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a...

—John Milton

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And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone...

—Ray Bradbury

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If there’s one American belief I hold above all others, it’s that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is “right” and what is “best” should be given no rest;...

—Stephen King

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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger...

—Charles Bukowski

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I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot of us have a bit of darkness within ourselves, some more than others...

—J.K. Rowling

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

—Golda Meir

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If you can’t say “Fuck” you can’t say, “Fuck the government.

—Lenny Bruce

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In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices-and all because of fear.

—Judy Blume

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As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: ‘Information is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without adequate access to key information about government policies and...

—Lawrence Martin

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Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation...

—Ray Bradbury

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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

—Robert H.

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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

—Bruce Coville

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The term “political correctness” has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell’s “Thought Police” and fascist regimes.

—Helmut Newton

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There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.

—G.R. Reader

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Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business...

—Jonathan Rauch

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[O]ne man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.

—John Marshall Harlan

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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at...

—Michel Foucault

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Poems are difficult to silence.

—Stephen Greenblatt

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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered,...

—Alberto Manguel

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