Logo
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Censorship
category

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

Category:
Censorship

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

Category:
Censorship

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

Category:
Censorship

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

Category:
Censorship

Random Quotes

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Failure

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site. – Sydney Harris

Category:
Forgiveness

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. – Moliere

Category:
Courage

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Category:
Tolerance