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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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Browse Quotations about Censorship

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.


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