Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

I often say that censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think. (p. 121)

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

Even the sternest oppression, however, cannot stop human thought forever.

Writing lives forever, while you may not.

"One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

[Is there more support for censorship now?] I don't know if there's more of it, but it's certainly more obvious. There's a youthful progressive movement, much of which is extremely valuable, but there does seem to be within it an acceptance that certain ideas should be suppressed, and I just think that's worrying. Wherever there has been censorship, the first people to suffer from it are underprivileged minorities. So if in the name of underprivileged minorities you wish to endorse a suppression of wrongthink, it's a slippery slope.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.

I don’t care what anyone says, it affects you, it never stops affecting you.

That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.