Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“#307 "The machine that is this country runs on prejudice and censorship." ~” — Veracity by Laura Bynun Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Every word serves a purpose. It conveys an idea. And the idea behind words like feces, stool, or poop is exactly the… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different… — Alexandra Byrne Copy Share Image
Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important… — Jessica Roy 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
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“On the issue of censorship of pornography and rock music, do you see that as a religious issue, too? Yes, I do.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they… — Giuseppe Borgese Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image