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#censors

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #censors




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


Mike Rogers


#am #censorship #clear #i #i am

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.


Potter Stewart


#confidence #itself #lack #reflects #society

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!


Kurt Vonnegut


#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.


Mark Twain


#fallibility #humor #sin #humor

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education.


Alfred Whitney Griswold


#education #ideas #education

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.


Craig Ferguson


#comedy #religion #sex #tv #religion

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 removal of censorship.


George Bernard Shaw


#free-speech #progress #challenge

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


Yevgeny Yevtushenko


#lies #lying #silence #truth #lie

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


Margaret Atwood


#literacy #censorship

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.


Craig Ferguson


#censorship #censorship






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