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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books
with one hand. — Robin Morgan

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is. — Dan Gillmor

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit! — Woody Allen

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to. — Studs Terkel

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

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman

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

I fear gratuitous censorship more than gratuitous violence. — Marty Rubin

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. — Kenneth Tynan

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. — Max Cannon

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

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. — Henry Rollins

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship. — Marc Chandler

Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. — Marty Rubin

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

No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain. — G. Willow Wilson

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. — Tommy Smothers

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

[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

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. — Judy Blume

Don't join the book burners! — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. — Jimmy Wales

You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse. — Artie Lange

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. — John Palfrey

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship. — Aryeh Neier

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

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. — Bill Gates

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. — Heywood Broun

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei

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

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. — John Milton

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

Censorship exists to block criticism and protect corruption. — Suzy Kassem

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

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

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

Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss. — Pat Paulsen

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

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. — John Locke

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

Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second. — Phil Kerby

No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived. — Seneca.

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

Smoking is unhealthy but not as unhealthy as being forbidden to smoke. — Marty Rubin

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government. — Lenny Bruce

Censorship exists to protect corruption. — Suzy Kassem

There should be no censorship of mail. — Barbara Deming

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain

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 don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. — Tom Petty

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. — Marston James

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

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. — Eugene O'Neill