Joseph Stalin Quotes

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and has never worked.

Ideas are dangerous; and the traffic in them has been the concern of all dictators.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Sasha, aren’t you a good communist? How can you allow so much ideological freedom? Do something!.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.