Citizens have to fight suppression of information on…

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit…

— Wendell Willkie

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other…

— Tom Peters

Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.

— Winnie Byanyima

Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated…

— Caroline Lucas

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could…

— David Halberstam

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression…

— Anthony Lewis

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

— Anonymous

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

“They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

— Carl Sagan

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

— Susan Glaspell