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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have bu

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

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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

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Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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