Censorship Quotes

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" "We change people through conversation, not through censorship" "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost" "A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad." "We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people" "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." "Manuscripts don't burn." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist" "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them" "It was a pleasure to burn" "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race"