Quotes About Censorship

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Alle de ting eksisterede ikke, eftersom man ikke havde lov til at bruge de ord, der betegnede dem. De var allesammen uden værdi. De kunne allesammen til nød være latterlige, altså genstande for hånlige og ligegyldige morsomheder.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.