“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech. — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
“There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. — Nadine Gordimer 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
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the… — Andrea K. Scott Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This could seem counterintuitive for many dictators running communist or socialist single-party states, but a thriving private tech industry can contribute invaluable… — Laurier Rochon Copy Share Image
“In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [ Master and Margarita ] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains -… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Women's sexuality is something that is a very touchy subject for a lot of women...I had to free my body from all… — Sheila Kelley Copy Share Image
If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We… — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.” — Frances M. Jones Copy Share Image
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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