Censorship Quotes - Page 4

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

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

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

There should be no censorship of mail.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden