Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. — Richard King Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from… — Rory Edwards Copy Share Image
Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
