If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
(n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then...
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.