Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
Wherever information gathers and flows, two predators follow closely behind it: censorship and surveillance. The case of digital money is no exception.… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
Censorship is a stupid thing. There should be certification, and not censorship. People are smart enough to understand that if a film… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains… — Thomas Paine 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
“And then they started deleting the protest reviews. That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove… — n+ 1 Magazine Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of… — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
“Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's… — John Farndon Copy Share Image
Government censorship of speech with which it disagrees not only violates the First Amendment, but is antithetical to the American system, which… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis Brandeis Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However,… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system, which suppresses the truth or fears to publish… — Kurt Eisner Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Since 1959, the Cuban people have been suffering under a brutal communist regime that has advanced an agenda of violence, censorship, and… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
“When the third person effect leads you to condone censorship, take a step back and imagine the sort of messages people on… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
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![“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence." [ Whitney v. California , 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]” quote by Louis Brandeis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/louis-brandeis-69139_argument_if-there-be-time-to-expose-through-discu_2795212.jpg)
![“Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.” quote by Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/adolf-hitler-253_brake_propaganda-tries-to-force-a-doctrine-on_1796242.jpg)
![“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e8/george-bernard-shaw-68_books_censorship-ends-in-logical-completeness_2466063.png)
