Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, andrei gromyko, antisemitism, astrology, astronomy, beijing, birth, birthdays, breastfeeding

Although censorship from others is not acceptable, you practice it every day when you decide with what people you will share what information, otherwise our deepest feelings would be shared with all t...

D.S. Mixell

Although censorship from others is not acceptable, you practice it every day when you decide with what people you will share what information, otherwise our deepest feelings would be shared with all t...

D.S. Mixell

Tags: acceptable, censor, censorship, choices, day, decisions, feelings, information, people, practice

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you...

Ray Bradbury

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you...

Ray Bradbury

Tags: burn, censorship, censorship of books, dystopian, fahrenheit 451, fire, ray bradbury

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Tags: censorship, education, free speech, paraphrased

Pretty soon all of us will be issued with hand scanners. That way when we met another person, whether we know them or not we can scan their ID cards. That way we will know whether to smile, frown, gri...

Anthony T. Hincks

Pretty soon all of us will be issued with hand scanners. That way when we met another person, whether we know them or not we can scan their ID cards. That way we will know whether to smile, frown, gri...

Anthony T. Hincks

Tags: big brother, censorship, decisions, free thoughts, friends, hand scanners, id cards, invassive, life, order

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it...

Stephen Fry

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it...

Stephen Fry

Tags: censorship, free speech, humor, libel, offense, philosophical, politics, sarcasm, slander, wisdom

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Holbrook Jackson

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

Holbrook Jackson

Tags: books, censorship

About Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932 – July 21, 2019) was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a founding member of the Yippies, a term he is credited with coining.