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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.
~censorship quotes by Theodore Schroeder
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.
~inspirational sayings about Censorship quotes by Harold R. Medina
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
~censorship quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~famous quotes about Censorship by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
~censorship sayings by Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
~censorship quotes by Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823
Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
~inspirational sayings about Censorship quotes by Lenny Bruce
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
~censorship quotes by Tommy Smothers
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
~famous quotes about Censorship by Albert Camus
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~censorship sayings by George Bernard Shaw, The Rejected Statement, Part I, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~censorship quotes by Claude-Adrien Helvétius
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
~inspirational sayings about Censorship quotes by Sigmund Freud, 1933
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~censorship quotes by John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
~famous quotes about Censorship by Walt Whitman
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
~censorship sayings by Henry Steele Commager
The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
~censorship quotes by Brian Tracy
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~good sayings about Meetings by H.L. Mencken
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~censorship quotes by Leo Tolstoy
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears
~motivational quotes about Groundhog Day sayings by Bill Vaughn
To exaggerate is to weaken.
~censorship sayings by Jean François de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~censorship quotes by Leonard Bernstein
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~good sayings about Flowers by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
~censorship quotes by Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.
~motivational quotes about Humankind sayings by W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
~censorship sayings by Jean Kerr
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
~censorship quotes by Charles Kingsley
I can resist anything but temptation.
~good sayings about Funny Quotes by Oscar Wilde
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
~censorship quotes by Ansel Adams
Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.
~motivational quotes about Poker sayings by John Luckacs
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope
~censorship sayings by Bill Cosby
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
~censorship quotes by Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~good sayings about Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't worry about people stealing your ideasIf your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats
~censorship quotes by Howard Aiken
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery
~motivational quotes about Money sayings by Beverly Johnson
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
~censorship sayings by George Eliot
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