Censorship Quotes

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.