Popular Quotes

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

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.

- Claude Adrien Helvetius

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

- Walt Whitman

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

- Samuel Johnson

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

- Oscar Wilde

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

- John Milton

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

- John Stuart Mill

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.

- Thomas Jefferson

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

- Clare Boothe Luce

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

- Anonymous American Lawyer

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

- St. Jerome

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

- Thomas Jefferson

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

- Voltaire

Every burned book enlightens the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson