Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. -Alfred Whitney Griswold

 

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.


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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

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A Socrates in every classroom. -Alfred Whitney Griswold
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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. -Alfred Whitney Griswold
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

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