Censorship Quotes

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

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.

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

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.

Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

I want all the books on the she

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

You're sad but you hold everything back...

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

Censorship exists to protect corruption.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.

A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.