Censorship Quotes

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

— Oprah Winfrey

Burning is no answer.

— Camille Desmoulins

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's more than one way to be a girl

— Lauren Faust

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

— Charles Laughton

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

— Ludwig Borne

Censorship = a sober captain.

— Grass Hopper

People die, but books never die.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Mae West

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

— Heywood Broun

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

— Larry Flynt

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

— Emma Stone

“The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.”

— William Golding

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

— Julian Assange

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

— Karl Kraus

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

— Kenneth Tynan

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system…

— Ai Weiwei

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local…

— Ray Bradbury

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may…

— William Borah

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

— Judy Blume

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

— C. Edwin Baker

“We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby…

— Philip Slater

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to believe in it for himself. We want censorship to…

— Edgar Dale

Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information…

— James A.C. Brown

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,…

— Ray Bradbury

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature…

— Ali Smith

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our…

— Eric Hoffer

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must…

— Walter Lippmann

Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it.…

— Katie Waitman

“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“This could seem counterintuitive for many dictators running communist or socialist single-party states, but a thriving private tech industry can contribute invaluable…

— Laurier Rochon

I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we…

— Myrna Loy

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people…

— Woodrow Wilson

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content…

— John Paul Stevens

If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it.…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long…

— George Orwell

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part…

— Gunter Grass