Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves. — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.” — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
“The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Islamic government is based on freedom of dialogue and will fight against any kind of censorship. — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress. — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do. — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If I'm writing about my life, I'm already thinking of anyone in my life who might be reading it, and I'm keeping… — Mandy Stadtmiller Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power… — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“Freedom of the press is the freedom of 200 rich people to spread their opinions. Pressefreiheit ist die Freiheit von zweihundert reichen… — Paul Sethe Copy Share Image
“Is there any censorship in your country’s media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or… — Michael Copps Copy Share Image
“Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1)Artificial censorship 2)Limitations of social contact 3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“If people wrote their reviews on paper and put them into a real, physical library, I am sure that the Goodreads administrators… — G.R. Reader 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
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
“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
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship. — Marc Chandler Copy Share Image
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
