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Quote from Salman Rushdie,


"The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument."


By:

Salman Rushdie (more quotes by Salman Rushdie or books by/about Salman Rushdie)

Source:

“Casualties of Censorship,” in They Shoot Writers, Don’t They (George Theiner) 1984

Categories:

Speech, Censorship, Death

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