I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Censor Board is observed taking a lenient view with regard to certain explicit contents, which should be restricted, on screen.… — Raza Murad Copy Share Image
“Book banning satisfied their need to feel in control of their children's lives. Those who censored were easily frightened. They were afraid… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had… — David Davis Copy Share Image
OTT platforms have taken away the pressure that would plague films earlier... the pressure of box office, the number of screens it… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of… — Azar Nafisi 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
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
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
“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
“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
“So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas 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
“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all… — William E. Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing… — Paul Goodman 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
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all.… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and… — Seth 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
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don't think anyone in India would tone… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get… — Granville Hicks Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“The days of sitting on the fence and not opposing social justice warrior censorship because you don't agree with everything that (insert… — Vox Day Copy Share Image
“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
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