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To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited l

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. – John Aikin

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To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging

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That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well. – Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1821 (“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher v

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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. – Theodore Schroeder

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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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