Quotes related to censorship in Fahrenheit 451?

Answer 1

"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."

- Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451, pg. 51

"I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense."

- Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451, pg. 82

"What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."

- Captain Beatty, Fahrenheit 451, pg. 107

"Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences."

- Captain Beatty, Fahrenheit 451, pg. 115

"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!"

- Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451, pg. 141

Answer 2

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill

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. ~Henry Steele Commager

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire

I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody