Censor Quote by Anonymous

“[Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is the aperture…

— Carl Sagan

“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support…

— Robert Trivers

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we…

— David Mamet

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid…

— Ashton Kutcher

“The most efficient kind of censorship isn’t the heavy-handed black inking of the secret policeman; it’s the self-censorship we impose on ourselves when we’re…

— Charles Stross

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

— Pat Frank

“And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a…

— G.R. Reader

“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to…

— Glenn Greenwald

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

— Alan Watts

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of…

— William O. Douglas

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

— Derrick Jensen

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

— David Cronenberg