Assassination Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ”

— George Bernard Shaw

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency -…

— Eric Alterman

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

“The formula for a public assassination is: the character assassination before the physical assassination; so one has to be made killable before the eyes…

— Malcolm Shabazz

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

— Charles Bukowski

“But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run,…

— Katharine Whitehorn

There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

— Paul Morrissey