This is the IFLA/FAIFE collection of quotations on Intellectual Freedom and Censorship. The quotations derive from a wide variety of people dispersed in both time and geography, and deal with many different issues related to the concept of Intellectual Freedom.

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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.

The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.