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.

Henry Steele Commager

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability."

David Mamet

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Nadine Gordimer

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

John Perry Barlow

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Richard King

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Tommy Smothers

It's a prior restraint; it's state censorship.

Jon Fleischaker

(Dealing with censorship) has become our art how to say something with certain rules.

Rafi Pitts

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Booth Luce

I do not condone illegal activity, ... But I can't stand here today and say that I condone censorship.

Marc Ecko

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

This is censorship of the worst kind.

Vanessa Redgrave

What really upset me is censorship of the slightest hint of Christianity.

Lloyd Marcus

President Arroyo's actions could usher in a new era of press censorship and intimidation.

Barbara Cochran