The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content. — Raftaar Copy Share Image
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul... — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits. — Brian Eno 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
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
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
“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
What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
“In that case the current orthodoxy happens to be challenged, and so the principle of free speech lapses. Now, when one demands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a… — Ernst von Salomon Copy Share Image
To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought. — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where… — Alan Charles Kors Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech. — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
“There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce 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
“The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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