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
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no… — Tahir Raj Bhasin 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
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and… — Richard Seaver 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
“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
“Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's… — John Farndon 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
“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of… — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove… — n+ 1 Magazine 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
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.” — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
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