Without the freedom to criticise, question and

challenge the dominant narrative, societies

cannot make progress.Elif Shafak

Index on CensorshipDecember 2014

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Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day,

that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

Salman RushdieIndex on Censorship

December 1983

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A free press has to be

more than its own reward.

Amartya SenIndex on Censorship

September 2013

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Ideology wants to convince you that its truth is absolute. A novel shows you that everything is relative.Milan KunderaIndex on CensorshipNovember 1977

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A brief history of censorship would by no means be brief.

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Margaret AtwoodIndex on CensorshipDecember 2010

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To be tolerant, one must set the boundaries of the intolerable.

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Umberto EcoIndex on CensorshipMay/June 1994

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It has been rightly pointed out that what

is most important is not so much freedom of speech as

freedom after speech.Aung San Suu Kyi

Index on CensorshipMarch 2012

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All I am trying to say is that I want to write.

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Vaclav HavelIndex on CensorshipJanuary 1978

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In the majority of countries, literature continues to be the � nal bastion of freedom.Mario Vargas LlosaIndex on CensorshipNovember 1978

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The Word, written or spoken,

is our precious common property.

Nadine GordimerIndex on Censorship

May 1997

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