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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There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced inspired, not compelled.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
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Could Hamlet have been written by committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas don't spring from groups. They spring from individuals.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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