Top Ten Quirky Quotations About Censorship

The Top Ten

1 I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. (Alan Bennett)

2 Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (George Bernard Shaw)

I mean, they aren't wrong.

3 Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. (Clare Booth Luce)

4 Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (A. J. Liebling)

5 We are paid to have dirty minds. (John Trevelyan)

6 A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. (Laurence J. Peter)

I actually laughed reading this. And this is so true. Lucky Censors.

7 There are no alternatives to 'bastard' agreeable to me. Nevertheless I have offered them 'swine' in its place. (Samuel Beckett)

8 I dislike censorship. Like an appendix it is useless when inert and dangerous when active. (Maurice Edelman)

9 Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. (Heywood Broun)

10 As Irish film censor, I am between the devil and the Holy See. (James Montgomery)

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