Ernie Pyle Quotes


Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini Censorship 168
You can cage the singer but not the song. Harry Belafonte Censorship 164
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine Censorship 161
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 139
Remember the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. Ray Bradbury Censorship 131
Censorship is telling a man he cant have a steak just because a baby cant chew it. Mark Twain Censorship 119
When you tear out a mans tongue you are not proving him a liar youre only telling the world that you fear what he might say. George R.R. Martin Censorship 119
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Ray Bradbury Censorship 115
Free societies...are societies in motion and with motion comes tension dissent friction. Free people strike sparks and those sparks are the best evidence of freedoms existence. Salman Rushdie Censorship 106
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. George Bernard Shaw Censorship 102
We change people through conversation not through censorship. Jay Z Censorship 88
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. Julian Assange Censorship 86
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. William O. Douglas Censorship 85
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. Richard King Censorship 85
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. Jacques Prevert Censorship 83
Without freedom of speech there is no modern world just a barbaric one. Ai Weiwei Censorship 82
All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction and readers should have the freedom to read what they want. Mark Coker Censorship 82
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Thomas Jefferson Censorship 81
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. Pablo Picasso Censorship 81
One mans vulgarity is anothers lyric. John Marshall Harlan Censorship 80
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland Censorship 79
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she hasn Marilyn Monroe Censorship 78
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself. Granville Hicks Censorship 78
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. Holbrook Jackson Censorship 77
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. Samuel Johnson Censorship 77
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Censorship 77
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. Ellen Hopkins Censorship 76
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. Tommy Smothers Censorship 74
Das war ein Vorspiel nur dort wo man Bcher verbrennt verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. That was but a prelude where they burn books they will ultimately burn people also. Heinrich Heine Censorship 73
We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue D.W. (David Wark) Griffith Censorship 73
The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. William Golding Censorship 72
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. Jeremy Bentham Censorship 72
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. William Butler Yeats Censorship 72
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. Michel de Montaigne Censorship 72
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. Heinrich Heine Censorship 72
There must be something in books something we cant imagine to make a woman stay in a burning house there must be something there. You dont stay for nothing. Ray Bradbury Censorship 72
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo DaVinci Censorship 71
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation. Samuel Johnson Censorship 71
If the partridge didnt call at the wrong moment Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also That everyones voice betrays him. Rahman Baba Censorship 71
You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble. Craig Ferguson Censorship 71
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. Seigneur De SaintEvremond Censorship 70
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Jonathan Swift Censorship 68
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmour Censorship 67
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. Jacques Derrida Censorship 66
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Censorship 65
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. Richard King Censorship 65
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland Censorship 60
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. Demosthenes Censorship 60
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. Sigmund Freud Censorship 56
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. David Cronenberg Censorship 55

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