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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. – Leonardo DaVinci

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. – Demosthenes

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. – William O. Douglas

I quit watching the debates after they excluded Ron Paul and censored supposedly live interviews with him from the tv. – James Dye

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. – James T. Farrell

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. – Federico Fellini

We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue – D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. – Heinrich Heine

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