Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with. — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“The goons are at the gate again. Beware my friends, lest they be you. (from "Censorship")” — Stan Rice Copy Share Image
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from… — Rory Edwards Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
“Controlling the internet is a powerful tool for increasingly confident autocracies.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black,… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Draconian censorship was soon imposed, with correspondents advised that no dispatches would be allowed that made people at home feel unhappy. Equally… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“The tendency to want what has been banned and therefore to presume that it is more worthwhile is not limited to such… — Robert B. Cialdini Copy Share Image
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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