The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

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

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.