Andrew Breitbart Quotes

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

Ideas are dangerous; and the traffic in them has been the concern of all dictators.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

There is social intimidation by the self-appointed brigades of the thought police… they exist in every society, whether they are of the religious, nationalistic or atheistic variety. Dogmatists, who are convinced that they know better, that only the way they think is acceptable and who would deprive others of their right to hear differing and discordant voices.. They try to achieve this by either silencing the author or scaring away the public.

It is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It's just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.