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 […]
Censorship Quotes
The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted.
Comstockery is the world’s standing Joke at the expense of the United States. It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second rate, country-town civilization after all.
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret, in a crisis like […]
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Censorship is not only ultimately unfair, but it is also ineffective. Whether women are abused in a society has much more to do with the way the men are raised, and little to do with what they watch and read.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
A book whose sale’s forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.
A writer does not have to be incarcerated in a prison cell or abducted or murdered, to be silenced by a regime which does not approve of him. To be banned, censored, unable to publish his work, can to a dedicated writer, be “a fate worse than death.”
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
