Quotes about Censorship

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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?

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.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

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.