Censorship Quotes

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

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

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

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

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.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

John Gilmour

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.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tommy Smothers

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

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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

Censorship is the height of vanity.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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

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