The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first…

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

— William Shakespeare

“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such commodities as…

— Robert B. Cialdini

“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support…

— Robert Trivers

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

— Faith Salie

We have the very best censoring devices in our own homes. If we don't like what we see on television, we can turn off…

— Mike Connors

“Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at…

— Edward Kennedy

...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the…

— Harry Browne

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of…

— Mark Twain

There's more than one way to be a girl

— Lauren Faust

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't…

— Evan Davis

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

— Margaret A. Edwards

Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between…

— Janice Raymond