censorship, n.All

Censorship is contrary to the right of every human being to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him.

Censorship is itself the only real offense that ought to be censored.

Censorship is always self-sabotaging, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship is always a sign of weakness, not strength, in those who enforce it.

Censorship is a peculiar evil in that it robs both those who dissent from the opinion (it steals from them the possibility to reveal that the censored view is the correct view to hold), and still more from those who hold the view of the censor (because they sacrifice the lively impression of truth produced by its collision with error).

Censorship is defending the tinsel world of the soap opera and the low-'grade movie against the adult competition that continually threatens to shatter it.

Censorship is a by-product of fear, which stems not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others.

Censorship is like an appendix. When it is inert it is useless... when active it is extremely dangerous.