Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.” — Pat Frank Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I wonder… if my letters had never been censored, would I understand freedom of speech?” — Mel Ellis Copy Share Image
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
In 2021 social media is how the world communicates, and the enforcement of arbitrary content guidelines imperil free speech. As censorship increases,… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
“Also, the whole concept of "Off-topic" is silly beyond discussion. If you start removing off-topic reviews from this site, most of them… — Nandakishore Varma Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present… — Hollis Alpert Copy Share Image
“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Draconian censorship was soon imposed, with correspondents advised that no dispatches would be allowed that made people at home feel unhappy. Equally… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
