Famous censorship quotations

   Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.  Nice Word by Lenny Bruce

   If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.  Meaningful Quotation by Noam Chomsky

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.  Good Quote by Potter Stewart

   What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.  Wise Phrase by Sigmund Freud, 1933

   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?  Wise Phrase by Joseph Henry Jackson

   Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.  Famous Saying by Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959

   I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.  Nice Word by Voltaire

   Censorship offends me.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown

   We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.  Good Quote by John F. Kennedy

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

   If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.  Wise Phrase by Harold R. Medina

   To reject the word is to reject the human search.  Famous Saying by Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging

   Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.  Nice Word by Abbott Joseph Liebling, Do You Belong in Journalism? New Yorker, 4 May 1960

   I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.  Meaningful Quotation by Nancie J. Carmody

   Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!  Good Quote by Thomas Carlyle

   God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.  Wise Phrase by Rebecca West

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

   To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.  Famous Saying by Claude-Adrien Helvétius

   The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.  Nice Word by David Ben-Gurion

   You can cage the singer but not the song.  Meaningful Quotation by Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988

   The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.  Good Quote by Henry Steele Commager

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

   We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.  Wise Phrase by Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764

   Every burned book enlightens the world.  Famous Saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   The paper burns, but the words fly away.  Nice Word by Akiba ben Joseph



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