The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get… — Granville Hicks Copy Share Image
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that… — Jonathan Zittrain 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
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.” — Rosa Luxemburg 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
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“If people wrote their reviews on paper and put them into a real, physical library, I am sure that the Goodreads administrators… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of… — Witold Walczak Copy Share Image
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
“The first casualty of war is truth, and the war on drugs is no different” — Dominic Milton Trott 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
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
