“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system, which suppresses the truth or fears to publish… — Kurt Eisner Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue,… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Whenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever, let that scare you;… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Parents and other who complain often do so out of deep beliefs or convictions, and often in an effort to "protect" young… — Joan Bertin Copy Share Image
“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
“People are dying because of ignorance. They are dying because unremitting propaganda is denying them essential safety information. They are dying because… — Dominic Milton Trott Copy Share Image
The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters' demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that… — Craig Nelson Copy Share Image
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and… — Peter S. Jennison Copy Share Image
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right… — Pamela Wallin Copy Share Image
“Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only… — Sam Sheppard Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines… — John Maus Copy Share Image
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review, by removing discussion of social context, and saying… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
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