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Speech Censorship Quotes & Sayings

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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. — Christopher Hitchens

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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

Conventional economic theory ... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. — William Randolph Hearst

Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database. — Jeffrey Needham

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson

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

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn't say anything bad about it. — James Rozoff

Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. — James G. Watt

There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers. — Dejan Stojanovic

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. — Earl Warren

I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan! — Chris Rock

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida

Free speech not only lives, it rocks! — Oprah Winfrey

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it. — Kathy Griffin

[Blog post, March 10, 2014] — K.J. Charles

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

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

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out. — Robbie Williams