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
Who Wrote These Censorship Quotes
262 authors contributed a total of 350 Censorship Quotes, led by these top contributors: