12 Movie Quotes about Censorship (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 4, 2025

Memorable quotes about censorship, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 At least he is not a book burner, you Nazi cow.

Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)

2 I've got a better idea. Let's put it to a vote. All right? Who's for Eva Braun here? Who wants to burn books?

Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)

3 It's actually been banned in Saudi Arabia for being too safe.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

4 Got a special tutor to read me all those books that were banned in Boston.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar in Some Like It Hot

5 Who thinks that we have to stand up to the kind of censorship that they had under Stalin?

Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)

6 That's censorship. That's not what America's all about.

Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Vietnam

7 And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

8 You stole them? -Heavens, no. Stealing implies ownership. You can't steal from the censor. I merely reclaimed them.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

9 But they read our mail, and they censored it. It's like a nightmare out there. It's like a like a prison camp.

George Peppard as Col. John Hannibal Smith in The A-Team

10 And finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises, to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy. The only way these days to get the jaded video-sated public off their arses and back in the sodding cinema.

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

12 Movie Quotes about Censorship (+ Sound Clips)

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