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 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
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online. — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.” — craig ferguson Copy Share Image
Although I don't believe in censorship, I believe an artist is very responsible for his actions. Especially if he's a young artist… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind,… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
“While much of the media is driven by social media "clicks", the alphabet soup continuously endeavors to protect democrats by consistently complimenting… — Alex Mel Copy Share Image
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws… — Alan Dershowitz 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
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a… — Otis Y. Chandler Copy Share Image
Many novelists say, "I'm not a political novelist" - myself included. That's a standard, even a default position. Whereas that divide between… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Unlike the anything-goes Greeks, the Romans felt a need to set some linguistic limits and invented censorship in the fifth century B.C.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe it is dangerous to think that the more extreme forms of censorship are more worthy of our attention. If we… — Moddi Copy Share Image
It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
