Censorship
I never heard of anyone who was really literate
or who ever really loved books
who wanted to suppress any of them.
Censors only read a book with great difficulty,
moving their lips and they puzzle out each syllable,
when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
Robertson Davies
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard 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
The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book.
And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Every minority, be it Baptist, Unitarian, Irish, Italian, Octogenarian,
Zen Buddhist, Zionist, Seventhday Adventist, Women's Lib,
Republican, Mattachine, Four Square Gospel ... feels it has the will,
the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse.
Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary
blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature,
licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author
who dares to speak above a whisper
or write above a nursery rhyme.
Ray Bradbury
The whole principle is wrong.
It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk
because the baby can't eat steak.
Robert A. Heinlein
The trouble with censors is they they worry
if a girl has cleavage.
They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe