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Censorship Quotes
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. (Quote by - Charles Austin Beard)
We're not going to get into the censorship business. We're just giving them smart advice. (Quote by - David Plati)
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. (Quote by - Euripides)
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud, 1933)
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
We're not in the business of censorship. It is not up to a government official to determine whose opinion is right and whose is wrong. (Quote by - Linton Johnson)
Unfortunately, the proponents of censorship won out by inflaming false fears that this critical analysis lesson plan is the equivalent of teaching intelligent design. (Quote by - Casey Luskin)
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Free speech not only lives, it rocks! (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?. (Quote by - John Hughes)
I have a right to say these things without censorship. Isn't it the duty of an opinion writer to be provocative and stir debate?. (Quote by - Jillian Bandes)
When he was minister of culture we had few problems with things like censorship, .. Now we have many. (Quote by - Mohammad Khatami)