Quotes about Censorship
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
— GK Chesterton
One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.
— Joseph Heller
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
— Ray Comfort
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?
— Tobias Lutke
political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth
— Karl Barth
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
— John Wesley
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
— Alain de Botton