Quotes about Censorship
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?
— Audre Lorde
Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.
— Aldous Huxley
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
— Jimmy Carter
First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.
— Alice Hoffman
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
— Albert Camus
Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Political correctness is evil.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.
— Ben Carson
The value of the Bibles smuggled in by these means cannot be understood by an American or an English Christian who "swims" in Bibles.
— Richard Wurmbrand