Censorship Quotes

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Don't join the book burners!

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Burning is no answer.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

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

There is more than one way to burn a book.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

People die, but books never die.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Free speech is life itself.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.