Censorship Quotes

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmour

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.

George Orwell

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

Thomas Jefferson

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

George Bernard Shaw

Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.

Allan Jenkins

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Potter Stewart

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

Richard King

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Granville Hicks

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson
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