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Quote from Voltaire,


"It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack."


By:

Voltaire (more quotes by Voltaire or books by/about Voltaire)


[François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher

Source:

Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne, 1958

Categories:

Censorship, Media, Politics, Power, Prohibition, Reason, Tolerance, Truth

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