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“The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronst...”
“When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.”
“To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”
“No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.”
“Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.”
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.”
“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.”
“Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.”
“Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.”
“You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
“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 hav...”
“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.”
“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bl...”
“La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen siendo. Claro, lo tienen que compartir con los grandes magnates de la tierra, esos que controlan el p...”
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
“It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls”
