As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.
Robert Towne
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Michael Berryman
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
Federico Fellini
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Henry Louis Gates
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Richard King
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
Potter Stewart
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Richard King
I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
Don Johnson
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Bernardo Bertolucci
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West
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