This collection holds 14 censorship in books quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Charles Bradlaugh, William Shakespeare and Lauren Faust.

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Art made tongue-tied by authority.

There's more than one way to be a girl

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

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'?

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

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