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Censorship quotes

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“And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“In the end, you can’t censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to’t” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“From this it follows that the censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.” Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” - 1785

“Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation” - 1841

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