Censorship Quotes

I like to perhaps give you a four-letter word that starts with an S ends with a T. First time in television, I’m not going to look at you when I say this because this way I can’t get busted. You don’t know who said it. The band said it. Starts with S and ends […]

The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted.

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman’s breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman’s breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing to read and must be very cautious about what he writes.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, a new status quo emerged in which the textbook industry and the major adoption states became comfortable with one another. They shared the same bias guidelines, which quieted the critics, left and right. Feminists were happy, because the publishers had accepted a nonsexist language code. Ethnic and cultural […]

Dear Sir, – I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this […]

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons.