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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
-Joseph Addison
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
-Joseph Addison
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
-Harry Belafonte
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
-Arnold Bennett
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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
-Ambrose Bierce
The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, 1967
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
-Thomas Bowdler
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The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventhday Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor whosees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/451/451.html
-Ray Bradbury
In the coda to a 1979 edition of the book Fahrenheit 451
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
-Willa Cather
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
-David Cronenberg
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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed.
-Edgar Dale
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
-Robertson Davies
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
-Demosthenes
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
-William O. Douglas
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I quit watching the debates after they excluded Ron Paul and censored supposedly live interviews with him from the tv.
-James Dye
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
-James T. Farrell
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
-Federico Fellini
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
-Anatole France
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
-Sigmund Freud, Referring to the public burning of his books in Berlin. Letter to Ernest Jones (1933)
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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.
-Nadine Gordimer
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We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue
-D.W. (David Wark) Griffith
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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?
-Mervyn Griffith-Jones
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
-Heinrich Heine
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
-Heinrich Heine
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Books about Censorship
