Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I haven't watched any shows online but I know that the content is not crippled by censorship and is much more experimental. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
“Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there." - Claire Booth Luce” — Claire Booth Luce Copy Share Image
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the… — John Palfrey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
“Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1)Artificial censorship 2)Limitations of social contact 3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to… — Walter Lippmann 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
If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or… — Michael Copps Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver 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 the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Without the freedom of expression the human species will never move forward. Never less but backwards, without the freedom to express ones… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
