Censorship

QUOTES

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
 

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
 G B Shaw
 

What progress we are making! In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books.
 Sigmund Freud
 

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.
 Stanislaw Lec
 Unkempt Thoughts, 1962

To portray only what you would like to be true is the beginning of censorship.
 David Hare
 History Plays, 1984

Modern technology endows the individual with the means to circumvent totalitarian controls on information.
 Peter Drucker
 Post-Capitalist Society, 1993

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
 Voltaire
 1759

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
 Salman Rushdie
 1990

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
 Heywood Broun
 1926

Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.
 Heinrich Heine
 Almanso, 1823

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