Censorship Quotes

"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."
-Henry Steele Commager

"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

"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability.""
-David Mamet

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
-George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
-Tommy Smothers

"(Dealing with censorship) has become our art how to say something with certain rules."
-Rafi Pitts

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
-Clare Booth Luce

"I do not condone illegal activity, ... But I can't stand here today and say that I condone censorship."
-Marc Ecko

"This is censorship of the worst kind."
-Vanessa Redgrave

"What really upset me is censorship of the slightest hint of Christianity."
-Lloyd Marcus

"President Arroyo's actions could usher in a new era of press censorship and intimidation."
-Barbara Cochran