“The goons are at the gate again. Beware my friends, lest they be you. (from "Censorship")” — Stan Rice Copy Share Image
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it.… — Katie Waitman Copy Share Image
The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual… — Charles Rembar Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic… — Charles C. Pixley Copy Share Image
It's censorship, really. I don't see why it's not okay for somebody under the age of 17 watch someone smoking when they… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
“This book is irrelevant to Goodreads because you can’t buy it on Amazon. Also it talks about oppression, censorship etc. and no… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've… — Tony Hancock Copy Share Image
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do. — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress. — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Islamic government is based on freedom of dialogue and will fight against any kind of censorship. — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.” — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
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