Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director. — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail. — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Every word serves a purpose. It conveys an idea. And the idea behind words like feces, stool, or poop is exactly the… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control--about who is snapping the whip,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Europeans often laugh about how prudish Americans are, when it comes to sex. In Europe, sexuality is a normal part of life.… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beating and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some… — Gary Webb Copy Share Image
“Literary censorship should not be necessary within the parameters of the law because it's simply a reflection of prevailing social prejudices! Writing… — Jack Tar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“Those of us who oppose censorship believe that reading about something is a safe way to explore and understand it, and that… — Joan Bertin Copy Share Image
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
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
I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time. — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
“Dune always said it’s because any serious journalism is subject to severe censorship.” — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical. — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton 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
