Memorable Censorship Quotes

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"Censorship is the tool of those who can not govern themselves."
Susan B. Anthony
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
Potter Stewart
"If you don’t like what you see, you can turn it off, but censorship is not the solution."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Censorship is fostering the illusion that you can silence the voice of dissent."
Salman Rushdie
"The function of censorship is to protect the conscience of the powerful."
Edward R. Murrow
"The truth is not always pleasant. It’s the duty of the press to report it, regardless of consequences."
Walter Lippmann
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"In a free society, censorship is a vile permutation of authoritarianism."
Harold Pinter
"Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no freedom."
Rebecca MacKinnon
"Censorship is the greatest threat to freedom."
Noam Chomsky
"The only effective solution to censorship is to speak out, resist, and deny it legitimacy."
Alice Walker
"Censorship is the enemy of truth, and truth is the ally of human rights."
Kofi Annan
"Censorship is the tool for the weak and ignorant who fear the truth."
Howard Zinn
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Jonathan Swift
"Without free speech there is no free society."
Harriet Ann Beecher Stowe
"Censorship is the linchpin of tyranny."
Cesar Chavez
"The greatest danger of censorship is to the very ideas that inspire freedom."
George Orwell
"Censorship is like telling a woman she can't wear a bikini because it attracts unwanted attention."
Unknown
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
Clare Boothe Luce
"Censorship is born out of fear."
Bertolt Brecht
"Those who are unable to recognize their own failures are the first to impose censorship."
Tim O'Reilly
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"Censorship is a dangerous and malignant god."
S.E. Hinton
"To impose censorship is to extinguish our own liberty."
Friedrich Hayek
"Censorship is a moral cowardice."
Ayn Rand
"Censorship is the great encryptor of lies."
Douglas Adams
"Censorship is the root of ignorance."
Aldous Huxley
"Censorship harms the relationship between the governed and those they govern."
Richard Roop
"Censorship is telling a man he can’t eat steak because a baby can’t chew it."
Mark Twain
"Whenever you have efficient government, you have organized চাপ. It's a question of which চাপ. When I find out the pressure is being exerted in the name of morality, I know I'm in trouble."
Ezra Pound
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
Walt Whitman
"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
Claude Adrien Helvétius
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
Oscar Wilde
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
"Censorship is the tool of those who have something to hide from others. Only those who are afraid of what others might think, write, say, or do employ censorship."
Harry Truman
"I am absolutely opposed to censorship of any kind, under any guise."
Elia Kazan
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"The claim of the right to suppress discussion is made only by those who have some interest in stopping discussion."
Frederick Scott Oliver
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
H. L. Mencken
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
Jane Austen
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: that is the whole of the Torah; all the rest is commentary."
Hillel the Elder
"Those who burn books will in the end burn people."
Heinrich Heine
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky
"There is no such thing as a harmless idea. Every idea is fraught with explosive matter."
Mark Twain
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
Clare Boothe Luce
"The freedom to think means one thing if you're a philosopher or a scientist and quite another if you're an ordinary citizen. For the ordinary citizen, the freedom to think, or the freedom of thought, is primarily freedom from давление and propaganda."
Aldous Huxley
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson
"The deadliest weapon is the mouths of men."
Proverb
"Secrecy begets tyranny."
Robert Heinlein
"You can cage the singer but not the song."
Harry Belafonte
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Benjamin Franklin
"Intellectual freedom is the basis for human progress."
L. Ron Hubbard
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