Best Censorship Sayings

350 Censorship quotes by 250 unique authors

Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need… — Stephen Chbosky
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 grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness… — Pope Pius IV
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the… — Edgar Dale
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public… — William J. Brennan
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. — John Stuart Mill
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and… — Robert A. Heinlein
The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of… — Unknown Author
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more… — Winston Smith
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship — Ben Lindsey
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by… — Harry A. Blackmun
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot… — Theodore Schroeder
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes. — Winston Churchill
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the… — William O. Douglas
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction. — Cynthia McKinney
Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye. — Katharine Hepburn
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue,… — Frances McDormand
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their… — Daniel Gillies
Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and… — Newt Gingrich

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