The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the…

— Anonymous

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a…

— Salman Rushdie

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned…

— Margaret Bald

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages…

— J. M. Coetzee

If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We censor a…

— Peter Sunde

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment…

— Witold Walczak

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

“To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor content (unless…

— Otis Y. Chandler

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

— Tim Robbins

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Granville Hicks

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

— Emma Stone

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee