Basic needs Quote by Abraham Maslow

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent…

— Chuck Jones

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.”

— Pat Frank

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

— Charles Bukowski

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

— Deeyah Khan

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

— Anonymous

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the…

— Christa Wolf

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

— Julian Assange

“Direct and easy communications—freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense—has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

— Anonymous