To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. – Claude-Adrien Helvétius
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
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. – Janice Dickinson
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer
