Quote by Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

Other quotes by Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

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Women
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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Pleasure
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Other Quotes from
Censorship
category

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

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Censorship

Censorship: protecting you from reality. – Author unknown

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Censorship

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

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Censorship

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

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Censorship

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

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