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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

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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Knowledge
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – Rebecca West

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Art
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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Truth
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Other Quotes from
Censorship
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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Censorship

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

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Censorship

Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Censorship

You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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Censorship

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In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I dont want those things in my life. – Chrissie Hynde

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesnt have the power to say yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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power

Young people dont want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now Im just beginning, never ending. – Compay Segundo

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