Censorship Quotes
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
Carmody, Nancie
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.
Commager, Henry
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Freud, Sigmund
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Jefferson, Thomas
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Lerner, Max
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Mill, John Stuart
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Morley, John
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Stewart, Potter
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Voltaire
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Whitman, Walt
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Winfrey, Oprah
Free speech not only lives, it rocks!