Censorship Quotes

350 quotes by 262 authors

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
You can cage the singer but not the song. — Harry Belafonte
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style… — Jello Biafra
I don't believe in censorship in any form. — Kathryn Bigelow
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much… — Judy Blume
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett
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,… — Noam Chomsky
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom… — Alan Dershowitz
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic… — John Mortimer
Censorship defeats the right to self determination. — Billy Forbes
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real… — Granville Hicks
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. — G. D. H. Cole
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. — David I. Rozenberg
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell

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