Censorship Quotes - Page 4

You're sad but you hold everything back...

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

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

For ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped there was so little public discussion of the bomb or of radioactivity that even the Chugoku Shinbun, the major newspaper of the city where the atomic bomb was dropped, did not have the movable type for 'atomic bomb' or 'radioactivity'. The silence continued so long because the U.S. Army Surgeons Investigation Team in the fall of 1945 had issued a mistaken statement: all people expected to die from the radiation effects of the atomic bomb had by then already died; accordingly, no further cases of physiological effects due to residual radiation would be acknowledged.