It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
“The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and… — Karl Friedrich Bahrdt Copy Share Image
The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
