Best Censorship Qoutes
350 Censorship quotes by 250 unique authors
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
— Langston Hughes
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
— Penn Jillette
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was…
— Penn Jillette
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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But…
— Lois Lowry
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
— Thurgood Marshall
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir
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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
— Henry Miller
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
— Marilyn Monroe
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I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
— Richard M. Nixon
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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
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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
— Tim Robbins
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
— Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
— Salman Rushdie
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
— Salman Rushdie
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not…
— Salman Rushdie
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to…
— Salman Rushdie
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If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
— Eric Schmidt
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're…
— Wilbur Smith
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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
— Tommy Smothers
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