Quotes About Censorship

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

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

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

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

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.