Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them… — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
In censorship battles, single vociferous individuals exert remarkable power. More reasonable individuals may concede to avoid confrontation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. — John Palfrey Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.” — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
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