"If there had been a censorship of..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.”

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

“Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.”

“You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.”

“To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.”

“It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.”

“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”

“No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.”

“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”