Censorship Quotes

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

[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.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

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.

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.

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.

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.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.

Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.