In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.