Censorship Quotes
+1Free speech is life itself.
- Salman Rushdie
+1Free speech not only lives, it rocks!
- Oprah Winfrey
+1Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The paper burns, but the words fly away.
- Akiba ben Joseph
+1You can cage the singer but not the song.
- Harry Belafonte
+1The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.
- David Ben
+1Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
- Mark Twain
+1Books won’t stay banned Ideas won’t go to jail.
- Alfred Whitney
+1The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- Walt Whitman
+1Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1To reject the word is to reject the human search.
- Max Lerner
+1I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
- Mae West
+1I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- Abbott Joseph
+1To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.
- John Aikin
+1To hear one voice clearly, we must have freedom to hear them all.
- Kerry Brock
+1Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four letter word itself.
- Dick Cavett
+1Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- Voltaire
+1Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
- Heinrich Heine
+1The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
- Tommy Smothers
+1Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
- Walter Cronkite
+1I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
+1If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
+1God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
- Rebecca West