Malcolm Lowry Quotes

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

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

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

We can't let censorship take over.

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

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

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

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

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

You can't shoot an idea.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.