Deeyah Khan Quotes

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

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

Censorship is definitely one of the main issues that you have to live with in China – period!

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

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

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.

You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious.

Every censorship, however good its intent, degenerates inevitably into tyranny.

People like to quiet the speech of others.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.