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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.
Robert Towne

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.
Harry A. Blackmun

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

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

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Michael Berryman

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky

Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Henry Louis Gates

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Richard King

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

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

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Richard King

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
Don Johnson

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Bernardo Bertolucci

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West