Censorship Quotes · Page 7

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

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Granville Hicks

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Salman Rushdie

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Laurence J. Peter

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

— Alanis Morissette

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

— William Randolph Hearst

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it…

— Jeremy Bentham

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

— Andrew Breitbart

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

— James Harvey Robinson

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am…

— Lois Lowry

We should not be too proud about our sense that there is no state censorship, because we have privatized state censorship. We…

— Julian Assange

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and…

— Lech Walesa

“Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and…

— Richard Seaver

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping…

— J. M. Coetzee

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to…

— Bill McKibben

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related…

— Hugh Hefner

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books…

— Harry Mazer

“1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re…

— John Scalzi

“. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a…

— G.R. Reader

People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way…

— Paul Saffo

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in…

— Langston Hughes

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

— Jeremy Limn

“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

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

“freedom of the press from prior censorship was instituted in 1695.”

— Thomas Sowell

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

— Orhan Pamuk

“Behind the Iron Curtain, dinner told the truth.”

— Angelika Regossi

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

— Rod Serling

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

— Dan Gillmor

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

— Mike Rogers

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Thomas Jefferson