Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical. — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect… — Edgar Dale Copy Share Image
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,… — United Nations Copy Share Image
As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous… — Kanika Dhillon 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
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy 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
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear:… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real… — Henry Steele Commager 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
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Dune always said it’s because any serious journalism is subject to severe censorship.” — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. — Richard King Copy Share Image
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail. — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director. — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
