“Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.”
“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”
“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.”
“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”