I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves…

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

— Jonathan Zittrain

“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)”

— Salman Rushdie

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial…

— Morley Safer

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex.…

— Hugh Hefner

“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 when we’re…

— Charles Stross

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

“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

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 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