Book Quote by Anonymous

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

“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

Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.

— Anonymous

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

— Richard King

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always…

— John Boorman

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

— Tommy Smothers

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech…

— John Paul Stevens

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos…

— Max Lerner