Ira Wells > Quotes

“Who would you trust to do your reading for you? Which administrator or bureaucrat would you appoint as your own censor—to decide what information you can’t access, which ideas you shouldn’t know? Who is qualified to determine that a book, an author, or an entire field of inquiry should cease to be? The correct answer is: no one. Only those who have abandoned the sovereignty of their own minds and souls could answer otherwise.”
― Ira Wells, On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy