Censorship Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

— Thomas Jefferson

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or…

— Ayn Rand

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we…

— Sam Sheppard

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

— Laura Loomer

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

— Orhan Pamuk

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

— Kapil Sibal

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

— Penn Jillette

If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of…

— Tom Wicker

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,…

— Salman Rushdie

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship,…

— Kate Adie