A Quote by G. D. H. Cole

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

G. D. H. Cole

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Censorship May Morality Never Preservation Restoration Useful

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G. D. H. Cole
English - Economist
September 25, 1889 - January 14, 1959

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Yiyun Li

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Sue Kelly

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

Ramez Naam

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Camille Paglia

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

J. M. Coetzee

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

Penn Jillette

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Richard Moe

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Allen Tate

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Robert Kocharian

We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

Sam Harris

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Michael Kinsley

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.