Quotes on censorship

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

Ray Bradbury

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

Ray Bradbury

“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”

Ray Bradbury

“Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”

Stefan Molyneux

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

Censorship always protects the powerful and silences the powerless.

Alan Dershowitz