Sigmund Freud Quotes

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Sometimes it’s a short step from banning to burning.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

Rushdie is a hostage.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

It was only a generation ago that we learned that the burning of books may precede the burning of people.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.