Mary Whitehouse

“This is a propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt, and it is washing over the country into the homes of millions of people.”

“Clean up TV.”

“The Reithian concept of the BBC as a purveyor of all that is best in our culture has been wilfully destroyed.”

“If we are not prepared to defend the ordinary decencies of life, we are not prepared to defend anything.”

“The vast majority of people in this country are sick and tired of having their sensibilities outraged.”

“I’m for the freedom of the decencies, for the freedom of the family and for the freedom of childhood.”

“The urge to blaspheme is a sign of a desire to insult God.”

“I am not a censor. I am a liberator. I am liberating the producers and the writers from the pressures that are put on them.”

“Permissiveness is the gateway to pornography.”

“We are concerned with the protection of the young and the vulnerable.”

“There is a great deal of difference between an adult deciding what he wants to see and a corporation deciding what he shall see.”