Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“#307 "The machine that is this country runs on prejudice and censorship." ~” — Veracity by Laura Bynun Copy Share Image
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. — C. Edwin Baker Copy Share Image
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may… — William Borah Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan’s [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“On the issue of censorship of pornography and rock music, do you see that as a religious issue, too? Yes, I do.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a… — Ernst von Salomon Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear. — Kenza Fourati Copy Share Image
Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second — Phil Kerby Copy Share Image
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