"If the Party could thrust its hand into……" — Winston Smith
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
More Censorship Quotes
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- You can cage the singer but not the song. — Harry Belafonte
- Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett
- You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and… — Jello Biafra
- I don't believe in censorship in any form. — Kathryn Bigelow
- Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together,… — Judy Blume
- Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett
- Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the… — Noam Chomsky
- We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.… — Theodore Dreiser
- We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. — Mark Twain