Selected Quotes about Censorship
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. -- Ambrose Bierce
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. -- Robertson Davies
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. -- Sigmund Freud
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. -- Heinrich Heine
The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation. -- Samuel Johnson
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she hasn’t any. -- Marilyn Monroe
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -- George Bernard Shaw
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