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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Salman Rushdie
    “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

    [I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: censorship, free-speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: books, censorship, reading
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, libraries
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Golda Meir
    “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
    ― Golda Meir, My Life
    tags: censorship, history, orwellian, past, present
    307 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: censorship
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    John Scalzi
    “1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.

    2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.

    3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.

    4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.

    5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.

    6. You may also be twelve.

    7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.

    8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."

    [Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
    ― John Scalzi
    tags: authors, bullying, censorship, criticism, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, opinions, readers, reviewers, reviewing, reviews
    253 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: censorship, dissent, society, suppression, trouble
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    Bruce Coville
    “The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
    ― Bruce Coville
    tags: censorship, heroes, librarians, teachers
    210 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, Essays
    tags: censorship
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    “Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
    ― Margaret A. Edwards
    tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-express, love, love-story, lover, lovers, lovers-fictional, minors-rights, rite-of-passage, rites-of-passage, teen, teen-fantasy, teen-fiction, teenage-love, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents, teens, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers, young-adult-romance, young-adult-urban-fantasy, young-love, young-lovers
    189 likes

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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

    Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: censorship, dissent, free-expression, freedom, radical, rebel
    189 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: censorship, floss, lyrics, teeth, zappa
    124 likes

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    Jay-Z
    “We change people through conversation, not through censorship.”
    ― Jay-Z, Decoded
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    Juvenal
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?”
    ― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
    tags: censorship
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    K.J. Charles
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    [Blog post, March 10, 2014]”
    ― K.J. Charles
    tags: authors, bullying, censorship, criticism, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, opinions, readers, reviewers, reviewing, reviews
    115 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
    104 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: books, censorship, reading
    205 likes

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    John Morley
    “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
    ― John Morley, On Compromise
    tags: censorship
    135 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: censorship, digression, philosophy, reading, wit, writing
    99 likes

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    Kathy Griffin
    “So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.”
    ― Kathy Griffin
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    “Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?”
    ― Joseph Henry Jackson
    tags: books, censorship, reading
    56 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
    tags: censorship, literacy
    54 likes

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    A.J. Liebling
    “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
    ― A.J. Liebling
    tags: censorship, constitution, freedom-of-expression, opinion, press, speech, writing
    38 likes

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    G. Willow Wilson
    “No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."

    "Who's we?"

    "People with an ounce of brain.”
    ― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
    tags: book-burning, books, censorship, knowledge
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “Political correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
    tags: censorship, political-correctness, politics-quotes
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    Francis Bacon
    “The punishing of wits enhances their authority.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: censorship, wits
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    “Goose-stepping morons like yourself should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!”
    ― Dr. Henry Jones Sr.
    tags: censorship, indiana-jones, nazis
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