When the United States Customs Department suppressed Candide on the ground that it was an obscene book, they merely stimulated the perverse curiosity of thousands to whom Candide would have remained less than a name.
Laski illustrates how censorship can inadvertently spark curiosity about banned works, like 'Candide'.
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When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
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