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 censorship.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

I work as my father drank.