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.

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.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Don't join the book burners!

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

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

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.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

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

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.

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.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

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

Art made tongue-tied by authority.