Censorship Quote by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty.…

— Susan Sontag

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

— Potter Stewart

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

— Charles Bukowski

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

— Potter Stewart

I don't believe in political self-censorship.

— Geert Wilders

“What are the consequences when the government, the media, and the leaders of commerce all speak with one voice? Why, it means that if…

— Charles Stross

Self-censorship has become a part of me. I think because we live in a place where community is very important, family is very important,…

— Nadine Labaki

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability…

— Charles Bukowski

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

— Orhan Pamuk

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each…

— Julian Assange

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

— Alan Dershowitz