Against Censorship Quotes

#1. I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

Nelson Algren

#2. I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of human conduct.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#3. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor content (unless it's against our policies - eg porn, etc). [April 1, 2013]

Otis Y. Chandler

#5. I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Erica Jong

#6. And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Tom Lehrer

#7. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

George Gilder

#8. You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.

Stefan Heym

#9. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#10. Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#11. A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

Michael Porter

#12. An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Salman Rushdie

#13. Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.

Pablo Antonio Cuadra

#14. Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

Anthony Scaramucci

#15. Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship.

Anonymous

#16. In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Diane Abbott

#17. The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

Katharine Whitehorn

#18. I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci