John Harvey Kellogg Quotes

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

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

You know I've had work banned.

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Censorship has had a long history in the western world. Book banning is as old as books.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

If one person doesn't like your film, if he's powerful, your film will never see the light of day.

While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.

There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It's just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.

You can't shut somebody up by losing.

I've been no-platformed from every university with a strong Islamic faith community.

Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.