Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Censorship


"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." -Henry Steele Commager

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." -John Stuart Mill

"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice."
-Holbrook Jackson

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot." -Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." -Heinrich Heine

"Every burned book enlightens the world."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."-Voltaire

Illustration by Isaac Mao

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