Ethics Quote by Ben Okri

“Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear…

— May Sarton

“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

“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

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

— Pat Frank

“It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.”

— Frances M. Jones

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of…

— Julius Lester

“Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim.”

— James LaRue

“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ”

— George Bernard Shaw

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 also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.”

— Andrea Cremer

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon