There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear. — Kenza Fourati Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship. — Madonna Ciccone 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“I wonder… if my letters had never been censored, would I understand freedom of speech?” — Mel Ellis Copy Share Image
In Indonesia we have quite a strict censorship law, so there's certain things we're just not allowed to do, and there's certain… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present… — Hollis Alpert Copy Share Image
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Also, the whole concept of "Off-topic" is silly beyond discussion. If you start removing off-topic reviews from this site, most of them… — Nandakishore Varma Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright 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
Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their… — George Orwell 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
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more… — Judith Butler 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
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
