“Is there any censorship in your country’s media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“Freedom of the press is the freedom of 200 rich people to spread their opinions. Pressefreiheit ist die Freiheit von zweihundert reichen… — Paul Sethe Copy Share Image
“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all… — William E. Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because… — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in free speech. Common Sense's motto is sanity, not censorship. But I'm over the age of 18, and… — Jim Steyer Copy Share Image
“The yin to the yang of caring is that sadness is felt just that much more because that caring is so deep.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents and other who complain often do so out of deep beliefs or convictions, and often in an effort to "protect" young… — Joan Bertin Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don't think anyone in India would tone… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get… — Granville Hicks Copy Share Image
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and… — Seth Copy Share Image
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all.… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When the third person effect leads you to condone censorship, take a step back and imagine the sort of messages people on… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Since 1959, the Cuban people have been suffering under a brutal communist regime that has advanced an agenda of violence, censorship, and… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
“We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Censor Board is observed taking a lenient view with regard to certain explicit contents, which should be restricted, on screen.… — Raza Murad Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system, which suppresses the truth or fears to publish… — Kurt Eisner Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
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