The Crime Of Book Purging Is That

In Societies Like The American And West European Where The Dynamics Of Energy Come From Freedom And Where The Climate And The Whole Ethos Are Those Of Freedom, Censorship Is Bound To Be At Worst, Stupid; At Best, Futile; And Always, To Some Degree, Inconsonant With The Character Of The Society As A Whole.

There Is No Crime In The Cynical American Calendar More Humiliating Than To Be A Sucker.

Having A Thirteen-year-old In The Family Is Like Having A General-admission Ticket To The Movies, Radio And Tv. You Get To Understand That The Glittering New Arts Of Our Civilization Are Directed To The Teen-agers, And By Their Suffrage They Stand Or Fall.

To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

If You Mean By Capitalism The God-given Right Of A Few Big Corporations To Make All The Decisions That Will Affect Millions Of Workers And Consumers And To Exclude Everyone Else From Discussing And Examining Those Decisions, Then The Unions Are Threatening Capitalism.