Quotes About Censorship

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

I will never allow another individual to turn my voice into an echo, for I was not born to be censored!

The truth is we don't say half of what we truly think/feel for fear of being judged by others. Regardless of what they say, EVERYONE judges!

Can't say or do anything without being judged. Ooohhh but your opinion wasn't asked for, bi....

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Anyway, I might have just gone on about porn too long.

That is a great mystery," said Doctor Winter. "That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.

That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The

Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.

Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him— goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.

I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he's old enough to read it.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

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

people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them...

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.

One of the things about totalitarianism is that people disappear, and you can't find out what happened to them.