Quotes about Censorship

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it wa — Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actua — Stephen Fry
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what s — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery o — Michel Foucault
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable. — Stefan Molyneux
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's of — John Farndon, Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions
You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain. — Anthony T. Hincks
Censorship may promote the lies, but it does not alter the truth. — Anthony T. Hincks
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we — Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell, Why I Write
I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. — Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman, American Gods
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from th — Rahman Baba, The Poetry of Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pakhtuns
You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are qu — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Poems are difficult to silence. — Stephen Greenblatt
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. — A.J. Liebling