Top Censorship Quotes
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Richard King
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
Kathy Acker
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Joichi Ito
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante 
65% of people like this quote
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
64% of people like this quote
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
Kathy Acker
60% of people like this quote
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Joichi Ito
59% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Bernardo Bertolucci
57% of people like this quote
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West
57% of people like this quote
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
56% of people like this quote
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