I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some…

“It is the principle of the things, Jess. That is what you have got to understand. You have to stop people like that. Otherwise…

— Katherine Paterson

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

— Epictetus

“Everything that happens is always simple. And there’s a principle to how things proceed, assuming that they last.”

— Herta Müller

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

— Alan Cooper

“There is another Brain Principle to go with ‘First Things First’: that of ‘Last Things Too’. This states that, all other things being equal,…

— Tony Buzan

“On his death bed, he wrote his famous Dokkodo – final principles for the students of his school.   The third principle is, “In…

— Sebastian Marshall

Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate…

— Adamo Macri

“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”

— Angelika Regossi

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in…

— Gaspar Noe

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the…

— Felice Picano

There's more than one way to be a girl

— Lauren Faust

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

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

— Karl Kraus