Censorship Quotes

12 quotations about Censorship
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte · Censorship
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett · Censorship
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Thomas Bowdler · Censorship
This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
British Board of Film · Censorship
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
David Cronenberg · Censorship
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine · Censorship
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Samuel Johnson · Censorship
They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
Charles Laughton · Censorship
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
D. H. Lawrence · Censorship
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Klemens Von Metternich · Censorship
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare · Censorship
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats · Censorship

Authors on Censorship

Harry Belafonte Arnold Bennett Thomas Bowdler British Board of Film David Cronenberg Heinrich Heine Samuel Johnson Charles Laughton D. H. Lawrence Klemens Von Metternich William Shakespeare William Butler Yeats