Censorship Quote by Voltaire

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“freedom of the press from prior censorship was instituted in 1695.”

— Thomas Sowell

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

— James G. Watt

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

— Marie Corelli

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

— Ben Lindsey

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

— Robert Bourassa

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose,…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak…

— Stefan Heym

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

— Pierre Corneille

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by…

— Marshall Herskovitz