Censorship Quotes

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”

“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”

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

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

“Copyright has become a tool of censorship.”

“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”

“The censors were our biggest help. The more they cut, the more the public wanted to see what was left.”

“Censorship is the mother of metaphor.”

“When you find a rattlesnake on your doorstep, you don't wait to see if it will bite you; you kill it.”

“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”

“The bible, I was taught, was a book which none but the priests and bishops could read.”

“The CIA has now become the world's most powerful publisher because it can enjoin publication on national security grounds.”

“I do not believe that the government should be in the business of telling people what to read.”

“I am against any and all forms of censorship.”

“The MPAA is a corrupt, fascist organization that has been ruining the lives of artists for years.”

“War is the supreme form of censorship.”

“An attack on a book is an attack on the mind. It is a symbol of an attack on the person.”

“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”