Censorship Quotes - Page 3

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

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

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

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.

There's more than one way to be a girl

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

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

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.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Free speech is life itself.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

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

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

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

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.