Censorship Quotes

Censorship Quote of the day

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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...

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

Only the nonreader fears books.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

You're sad but you hold everything back...

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

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

Censorship exists to protect corruption.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

I want all the books on the she

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.

Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.