Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online. — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really… — Andrew Heller Copy Share Image
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to… — Katherine Paterson 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
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“If you truly hate censorship then you will defend anyone that is unfairly censored. Everyone deserves their legal rights, even when they… — C.A.A. Savastano 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
“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has… — Abhijit Naskar 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
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at… — John Mortimer 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
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm 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