Censorship Quotes

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I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. (Quote by - James Robinson)
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. (Quote by - Ben Lindsay)
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. (Quote by - Elias Lyman Maggon)
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. (Quote by - Beaumarchais)
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Only the suppressed word is dangerous. (Quote by - Ludwig Börne)
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
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Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
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Every burned book enlightens the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Quote by - Voltaire)
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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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. (Quote by - Robert Towne)
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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. (Quote by - Harry A. Blackmun)
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. (Quote by - Dick Cavett)
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. (Quote by - Michael Berryman)
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government. (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
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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. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
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