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Quote from Max Lerner,


"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."


By:

Max Lerner (more quotes by Max Lerner or books by/about Max Lerner)


(1902-1992) Russian-born American journalist and educator

Source:

quoted in Censorship: For And Against, 1971

Categories:

America, Censorship, Freedom, Speech

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