Quotes About Censorship

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.

Allí donde se queman los libros, se acaba quemando también persona

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

Men who start by burning books end by burning other men

En Argelia los genios no relucen, arden. Aunque se libren del auto de fe, acaban en la hoguera. Si por algún descuido se le coloca bajo los focos, es para dar más luz a los francotiradores.

My mother changed the television channel every time two people kissed. Both had passed through the permissive 1960s untouched. It might as well have been the 1860s. How my sister and I ever came to be, I've frankly no idea.

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

All of those words are so rude I wouldn't dream of putting them in this book.

His senior year, he started a garage band that was quickly banned from every club, bar, park, and concert hall in the region due to his insistence on playing a song called, "This Venue Is a Front for Human Trafficking, Someone Call the FBI, this Is Not Just a Joke Song Title.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,

Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication

The means of pressure on publishers were considerable,59 including the purging of public libraries and the publication of lists of undesirable authors,60 whose works had then to be withdrawn from circulation.61 Ever fuller lists of books prohibited from sale were published by the Börsenblatt.

Evoking the events of 10 May 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared: We all know that books burn. But we know still better that books can never be destroyed by fire. Men die, but books never die. No man and no violence can extinguish their memory. No man and no violence can lock ideas up for ever in a concentration camp. No man and no violence can chase from the world the works that express the eternal struggle of humanity against tyranny. We know that, in this War, books are weapons.

Immediately after their seizure of power, the Nazis expelled from the theatres all who were known for their progressive ideas.