Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past… — Martin Baker Copy Share Image
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,… — United Nations Copy Share Image
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking… — Felice Picano 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
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning… — Michel Hazanavicius 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
“People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.” — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
Women's sexuality is something that is a very touchy subject for a lot of women...I had to free my body from all… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.” — craig ferguson Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
