Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-08-30 Aug 30, 2011[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.~ Ernest JonesAs to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.~ Jeremy BenthamThe invaluable and the valueless, the noble and the tawdry, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false, the good and the evil, are equally protected by the First and the Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantees of a free press and religious freedom.~ Milton Konvitz Aug 29, 2011If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.~ Larry FlyntThe spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.~ Thurman ArnoldObviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.~ Pierre Trudeau Aug 26, 2011By 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. BlackmunWhy did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.~ Krzysztof KieslowskiA censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.~ Laurence J. Peter Aug 25, 2011Censorship…is always and everywhere an evil. Censorship means the screening of material by an authority invested with power to ban that which it disapproves….And who is that paragon to whom we would be willing to entrust such authority?~ Arthur LelyveldCensorship in any form, represents a lack of trust in the judgment of the individual. The passage of time provides the best perspective for sorting the wheat from the chaff.~ Bruce E. FleuryI am opposed to censorship in all forms, without any exceptions. As a matter of social philosophy, I do not like the idea of some people trying to protect the minds and morals of other people. In practice, this means that a majority seeks to impose its standards on a minority; hence, an element of coercion is inherent in the idea of censorship.~ Carey McWilliams Aug 24, 2011Censorship is advertising paid by the government.~ Federico FelliniThe oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.~ Hosea BallouIt is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print