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Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Akiba ben Joseph
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Albert Camus
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won't stay banned -Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
Author Unknown
Censorship offends me.
Beaumarchais
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Belafonte, Harry
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Belafonte, Harry
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Ben Lindsay
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
Bennett, Arnold
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Bennett, Arnold
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Bowdler, Thomas
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Bowdler, Thomas
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
British Board of Film
This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
British Board of Film
This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
Cather, Willa
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Cather, Willa
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Claude-Adrien Helv?tius
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.
Cronenberg, David
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
 
 
 
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