I am writing a research paper on Free Speech and Censorship, and I am almost done. I like to end my essays with a quote and then an idea at the end for the reader to think about, but I am at a loss for the quote. I am not asking you guys to do my homework for me, please don’t think that, I just need suggestions because the only ones I’ve found, I can’t work with very well.
Thanks in advance.
Without knowing the point you wish to make, perhaps you should look here and pick your own. Or here.
Thanks a lot don’t ask, I think that’s what I should have asked in the first place.
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” - US Constitution
“What part of ‘make no law’ don’t you understand?” - William Bennett Turner
How about this one: “Where men may speak freely, they do not act.” I don’t know who said it, though, but it’s a good one for your topic.
Thanks all, I decided to go with, “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” and ended it saying something about how no matter how much free thoughts are censored from us, they will continue to exist even without a means with which to share them to the world.
Shoot, I wanted to suggest this one:
“Girls lean back everywhere”
It’s the title of a great book detailing the censorship battles over the last century, but also a line from a judge’s decision. Basically, he was saying that, despite what gets published or filmed, it doesn’t change men (and women’s) basic drives.
Or there’s always Menckens, “I never knew a good girl ruined by a bad book.” Much snappier.
A wise choice, Morley made another point about individual freedom when he said, “Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”