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Quotes about censorship
You can cage the singer but not the song. (Belafonte Harry)
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. (Belafonte Harry)
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. (Belafonte Harry)
This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable. (Belafonte Harry)
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. (Belafonte Harry)
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. (Belafonte Harry)
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed. (Belafonte Harry)
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. (Belafonte Harry)
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. (Belafonte Harry)
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. (Belafonte Harry)
Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? (Belafonte Harry)
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 -- the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. (Belafonte Harry)
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. (Belafonte Harry)
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. (Belafonte Harry)
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. (Belafonte Harry)
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. (Belafonte Harry)
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. (Belafonte Harry)
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. (Belafonte Harry)
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. (Belafonte Harry)
Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy? (Belafonte Harry)
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. (Belafonte Harry)
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. (Belafonte Harry)
Art made tongue-tied by authority. (Belafonte Harry)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads. (Belafonte Harry)
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. (Belafonte Harry)
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