Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression. — F. LaGard Smith 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
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content. — Raftaar 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
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
