“Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship”

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

The unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing – no convention – can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child.

The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

There should be no censorship of mail.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.