Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
I'm vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them… — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've… — Kathy Acker 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
We should not be too proud about our sense that there is no state censorship, because we have privatized state censorship. We… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a… — Otis Y. Chandler Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Unlike the anything-goes Greeks, the Romans felt a need to set some linguistic limits and invented censorship in the fifth century B.C.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. — John Palfrey Copy Share Image
In censorship battles, single vociferous individuals exert remarkable power. More reasonable individuals may concede to avoid confrontation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz 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
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
