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Censorship Quotes

"Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor."
Sigmund Freud
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind"
James Baldwin
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin
"We change people through conversation, not through censorship"
Jay Z
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost"
Thomas Jefferson
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad."
Albert Camus
"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
Joseph Stalin
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
Oscar Wilde
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"
George Washington
"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"
John F. Kennedy
"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
Hannah Arendt
"Manuscripts don't burn."
Mikhail Bulgakov
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them"
Ray Bradbury
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"
Salman Rushdie