Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Censorship Quotes
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Oh, yes. One girl (at a protest) was wearing black tape on her mouth, presumably trying to make some point about the First Amendment. Honey, when you have to put the tape on yourself, then the only thing you’re saying is that you’re too silly to bother censoring.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? (speech for prosecution, Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, 1960)
