What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“freedom of the press from prior censorship was instituted in 1695.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film's theatrical run. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where… — Pat Paulsen 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
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate… — Julian Assange 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
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Right now we live in an age of extreme Political Correctness. It has gone way too far. I hope it's just a… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
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