I hadn't seen 'The Devils' until about two months before we started writing 'Apostle.' It would always play in documentaries about extreme… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Just because someone's opinion disagrees with your opinion, doesn't give you the right to be a militant dictator of speech. Your opinion… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should… — Killi Krupa Rani Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then… — Moddi Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume 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
Censorship is a stupid thing. There should be certification, and not censorship. People are smart enough to understand that if a film… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
Wherever information gathers and flows, two predators follow closely behind it: censorship and surveillance. The case of digital money is no exception.… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis Brandeis Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However,… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Government censorship of speech with which it disagrees not only violates the First Amendment, but is antithetical to the American system, which… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most efficient kind of censorship isn’t the heavy-handed black inking of the secret policeman; it’s the self-censorship we impose on ourselves… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
![“[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” quote by Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/976/judy-blume-2002_book_i-t-s-not-just-the-books-under-fire-now_2968936.png)
![“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." [ Whitney v. California , 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]” quote by Louis Brandeis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c4/louis-brandeis-69139_argument_if-there-be-time-to-expose-through-discu_2795212.jpg)
![“Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.” quote by Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f1b/adolf-hitler-253_brake_propaganda-tries-to-force-a-doctrine-on_1796242.jpg)
![“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e8/george-bernard-shaw-68_books_censorship-ends-in-logical-completeness_2466063.png)
