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Censorship Quotes - Page 2

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Martha Graham
Vanity, Height, Censorship
Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

John F. Kennedy
Library, Censorship In Books, Should
Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

People die, but books never die.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Book, People, Censorship
"Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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

William Randolph Hearst
Expression, Speech, Censorship
Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, February 1, 1924.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager
Real, Exercise, Censorship In Books

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw
Progress, Firsts, Censorship
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow

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

Peter Shilton
Soccer, Way, Censorship

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Julian Assange
Stopping, Censorship, Form
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Censorship, Logical
"Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.

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

Paddy Chayefsky
Typewriters, Mind, Censorship

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Jorge Luis Borges
Mother, Censorship, Metaphor

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

John Pilger
Television, Chance, Censorship
Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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

John Paul Stevens
Expression, Benefits, Censorship
"ACLU Hails Supreme Court Victory in Internet Censorship Challenge". www.aclu.org. June 27, 1997.

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

John Perry Barlow
Technology, Censorship, Internet

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

Earl Warren
Heart, Expression, Censorship
Dissent in Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago 365 U.S. 43, 1961.

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

David I. Rozenberg
Reality, Censorship, Illusion

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Charles Bradlaugh
Discovery, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books
Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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

Pete Hautman
Book, Ideas, Censorship

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini
Government, Censorship, Advertising
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Woody Allen
Censorship, Film, Lit
Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Nadine Gordimer
Genius, Censorship, Fragments
Nadine Gordimer (2011). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.411, A&C Black

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Borne
Inspirational, Censorship, First Amendment

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

Juvenal
Watches, Censorship, Watchers

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham
Evil, Impossible, Censorship
Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.152

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

Howard Stern
Believe, Benefits, Censorship

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