I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort… — Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and… — Richard Seaver Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
We should not be too proud about our sense that there is no state censorship, because we have privatized state censorship. We… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet justice… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove… — n+ 1 Magazine Copy Share Image
“AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“And then they started deleting the protest reviews. That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
“... the Chinese have become very good at coming up with puns, alternative words, and memes. For example, they talk about the… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
As I age, the filters between my mind and my mouth get used less and less and the unsuspecting world gets to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power… — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and… — Karl Friedrich Bahrdt Copy Share Image
“And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black,… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
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