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Quote from George Bernard Shaw,


"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."


By:

George Bernard Shaw (more quotes by George Bernard Shaw or books by/about George Bernard Shaw)


(1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist

Source:

The Author’s Apology, 1902

Categories:

Speech, Censorship

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