Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. Quotes

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

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

We can't let censorship take over.

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

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?

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

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.

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

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

Freedom of speech only exists in proportion to indifference to the thing spoken of.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

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

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.