All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf – that work I abhor – then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone […]
Censorship Quotes
Censorship is like an appendix. When inert, it is useless; when active it is extremely dangerous.
They can’t censor the gleam in my eye.
We seem to have achieved the remarkable situation where nearly half the population is telling the other half what it should be doing and thinking, and checking up that it is doing it.
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
