Quotes on Censoring

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

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