The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
