Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content. — Raftaar Copy Share Image
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul... — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought. — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where… — Alan Charles Kors Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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
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 was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
“But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
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