Self Censorship Quotes
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell
- Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei
- But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took… — Eugenio Montale
- The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I… — Milos Forman
- 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 other… — Julian Assange
- I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. — Tim Robbins
- Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to… — Salman Rushdie
- I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a… — Julian Assange