111 quotes found
“And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they can’t do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they can’t stop it. Despising and fearing knowledg...”
“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”
“The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.”
“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, ch...”
“At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.”
“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Any...”
“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and ...”
“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.”
“Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.”
“Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.”
“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.”
