Censorship Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,…

— Salman Rushdie

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

— Charles Bukowski

Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the…

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“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 is a touchy subject, all the way around.

— Xzibit

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

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered…

— Anonymous

“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

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability…

— Charles Bukowski