CENSORSHIP

Related Subjects: Bigotry, Criticism, Dictatorship, Morality, Prudery, Tyranny

1. Up in season, and so to the office, and read about how there is to be objection to Eugene O'Neill's play "All God's Chillun Got Wings," for that in the play a Negro kisses the hand of a white woman, and I deem such objection foolish. . . what would the Klan and such people have done about "Othello"?—F. P. A., Diary of our Own Samuel Pepys

2. Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.—DR. THOMAS BOWDLER, Preface to his Family Shakespeare

3. Unfortunately it has been our experience that there is a distinct affinity between fools and censorship. It seems to be one of those treading grounds where they rush in.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Censoring the Censor

4. So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.—J. B. S. HALDANE

5. I defy anyone to show that one city or state with censorship is any better than other cities or states like our own where there is no censorship.JUDGE BEN LINDSEY, The Child—The Movie—and Censorship

6. Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.—JUDGE BEN LINDSEY, The Child—The Movie—and Censorship

7. It is argued against certain books, by virtuosi of moral alarm, that they depict vice as attractive. This recalls the king who hanged a judge for deciding that an archbishop was mammal.—H. L. MENCKEN

8. Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody can read.—BERNARD SHAW

9. Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.—WALT WHITMAN