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Censorship Quotes
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Censorship is the height of vanity. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
There's no human censorship at kiosks. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
Banning a piece of literature is a political act. (Quote by - Immanuel Mifsud)
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. (Quote by - Nancie J. Carmody)
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
One man's vulgarity is another's lyric. (Quote by - John Marshall Harlan)
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. (Quote by - Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971)
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. (Quote by - Voltaire)
To reject the word is to reject the human search. (Quote by - Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging)
Any kind of censorship is wrong. If you got a student publication on your campus, it has every right to be critical of the administration in the same way the Tribune or Sun- Times has the right to criticize the governor. (Quote by - Ron Yates)
Once you start, the appetite for censorship knows no boundaries. (Quote by - Bill Lockyer)
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. (Quote by - Peter S. Jennison)
The guy, since he started, has felt censorship shouldn't apply, and this is a move he's earned. (Quote by - Jason Hill)
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. (Quote by - Joseph Lewis)
Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts. (Quote by - Greg Lukianoff)