Accepting Quote by George Orwell

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds…

— George Orwell

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

“Intellectual cowardice is only one of the problems of the academic community. Fort rubbed their noses in the swill generated by their gibberish and…

— John Keel

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Peter Lucas

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without…

— George Orwell

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

— Donald Rumsfeld

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression…

— Anthony Lewis

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare…

— Salman Rushdie

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a…

— George Orwell

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or…

— Susie Orbach

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

— George Carlin