Censorship Quotes · Page 7

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

— Anonymous

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

— Don Johnson

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

“Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.”

— James LaRue

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

— Henry Rollins

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

— Deeyah Khan

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

— John Marshall Harlan

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

— Max Cannon

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

— Laura Loomer

Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it…

— Andrew Ryan

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul...

— Israel Zangwill

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

— Raftaar

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful…

— James Rickards

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own…

— Barack Obama

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony Kennedy

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe it is dangerous to think that the more extreme forms of censorship are more worthy of our attention. If we…

— Moddi

It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too…

— Margaret Cho

At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the…

— Tom Malinowski

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die…

— Anonymous

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic…

— Kenan Malik

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…

— Judith Crist

Without the freedom of expression the human species will never move forward. Never less but backwards, without the freedom to express ones…

— Jeremy Limn

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only…

— Charles Bukowski

“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of…

— R. David Lankes

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place…

— David Byrne

There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial…

— Ayn Rand

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.

— Xzibit

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

— Anonymous

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

— Joyce Tenneson

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

— Lenny Bruce

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

— Mark Twain

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

— Thomas Jefferson

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Granville Hicks