Censorship Quotes

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

Read, Books, Nobody

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Progress, Condition, Removal

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West

Important, Saying, Dignity

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

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.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Past, Enough

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

May, Opinion, Everyone

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow

Around, Internet, Treats

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

Good, Between, Moral

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

Individual, Forever, Brand

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers

Ideas, Listen, Valid

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

Art, Justice, Lynching

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

Black, Lives, Color

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

Home, End, Charity

Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
Ai Weiwei

Power, Someone, Saying

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra

Down, Through, Creative

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
Julian Assange

Stopping, Leaks

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland

Mind, Confused, Public

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

Mind, Word, Dirty

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

Evil, Impossible, Tell

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
Katey Sagal

Character, Struggle, Sometimes

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
Zoe Saldana

Bad, Children, Happen

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales

I don't believe in censorship in any form.
Kathryn Bigelow

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
Kathy Acker

Country, Dangerous, Seen

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
Wilbur Smith

Mind, Political, Black

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
Lee Child

Government, Sense, Common

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume

Fear, Children, Parents

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

Fear, Real, Young

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