If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to.… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I go through fan mail myself, but I think I might get them censored, because I'm always expecting to get the one… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“This fetishization of not censoring yourself, of being an ‘equal-opportunity offender,’ is bizarre and bad for comedy. When did ‘not censoring yourself’… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
Let's say that, personally, I loved Hillary Clinton. Would WikiLeaks still publish this material? Of course it would. Otherwise, we would be… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such… — Robert B. Cialdini Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have the very best censoring devices in our own homes. If we don't like what we see on television, we can… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
