Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
If you start censoring what you're interested in for the audience, you don't give the audience enough credit. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson 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
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether… — John Hall 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
“You must get tired of hearing that,” she says after a moment. “I mean—of people censoring themselves around you.” Waiter?” — Julie Israel 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
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
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 think that was my biggest fear - censoring myself and putting myself into a cookie cutter to be representative. But I… — King Princess 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
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
“All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the… — Mark Coker 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
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz 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
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik 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
“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
...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
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
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
“And then they started deleting the protest reviews. That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. — Judi Dench 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
For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
