Censorship Quotes
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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty bookswith one hand. — Robin Morgan
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We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!
— Woody Allen
I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.
— Nelson Rodrigues
The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.
— Helmut Newton
Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag.
— Kevin Focke
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.
— William Golding
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
— William Westmoreland
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
— Michele Cassou
Burning is no answer.
— Camille Desmoulins
No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
— Oscar Wilde
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
— John Christopher
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
— Bernard Malamud
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
— Milos Forman
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.
— Lucien Bourjeily
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
— George R R Martin
Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.
— Mike Rogers
Censorship is the height of vanity.
— Martha Graham
I hate censorship, man. I really do.
— Jane Levy
At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.
— Craig Ferguson
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
— Tommy Smothers
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I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.
— Lytton Strachey
There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
— Bong Joon-ho
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
— A.J. Liebling
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[Blog post, March 10, 2014] — K.J. Charles
Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
— Billy Forbes
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
— Bruce Coville
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Don't join the book burners!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
— Jimmy Wales
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.
— John Palfrey
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer
The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.
— Victor Andres Triay
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
— Henry Steele Commager
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
— Clare Boothe Luce
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
— George Orwell
( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... )
— Salman Rushdie
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
— William Shakespeare
Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
— Ray Bradbury
Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.
— Peter Singer
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
— Joe Mantegna
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.
— Katharine Hepburn
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
— Ray Bradbury
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
— Holbrook Jackson
You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.
— Craig Ferguson
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
— G. D. H. Cole
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
— Neil Gaiman
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
— Nadine Gordimer
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
— Langston Hughes
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.
— Winston Churchill
What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.
— Julian Assange
When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
— Elif Shafak
I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.
— Andrea Cremer
Only a free hand can draw a free line.
— Marty Rubin
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
— Nadine Gordimer
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Censorship exists to protect corruption.
— Suzy Kassem
There should be no censorship of mail.
— Barbara Deming
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
— James Harvey Robinson
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
— Marjane Satrapi
Poems are difficult to silence.
— Stephen Greenblatt
