Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense. — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear. — Kenza Fourati 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
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities. — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g ,… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy. — Phil Robertson 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
Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo… — Xiaolu Guo 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
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“What are the consequences when the government, the media, and the leaders of commerce all speak with one voice? Why, it means… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins 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
“Government surveillance, with its invasive reach into the private lives of citizens, is an egregious violation of the principles that underpin a… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie 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
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Self-censorship has become a part of me. I think because we live in a place where community is very important, family is… — Nadine Labaki 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
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
