Quotes About Censorship

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

Unspeakable"--unspeakability?--comes in three varieties. First, that which cannot be said because one does not know it, and therefore cannot say it. Second, that which cannot be spoken because it is culturally impermissible to do so. And third, that which cannot be named because it is impossible, since the language provides no terms, no words to enable articulation.

At the time, Sills said, "the main thing we experienced was the repression of any kind of deviant behavior under the guise of anti-Communism." None of them could understand why there weren't more people, especially artists, fighting it. "A pall of McCarthyism lay over the land," said Bernie Sahlins, a producer at Playwrights, "and all you heard on TV were mother-in-law jokes.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

That one now hears the word "woke" everywhere is a giveaway that spiritual conversion, not political agreement, is the demand. Relentless speech surveillance, the protection of virgin ears, the inflation of venial sins into mortal ones, the banning of preachers of unclean ideas -- all these campus identity follies have their precedents in American revivalist religion.

From our schools and entertainment, to the media and government, we are witnessing the onslaught of repressive actions, including threats, censorship, and character assassination, and the demand for more of it. Marx would approve.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.