The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Manufacturing consent begins by weaponizing the meme and utilizing the censorship algorithms of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the… — Andrea K. Scott Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If politically infused music is denied airplay, music reviews or festival stage time because it is considered "politics" rather than "art", then… — Moddi Copy Share Image
“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's… — Mae West Copy Share Image
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
“There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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