Art Quote by John Boorman

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

— John Boorman

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

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

— Studs Terkel

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or…

— Rebecca West

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

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds.…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Charles Bukowski

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages…

— J. M. Coetzee

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

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the…

— Alanis Morissette

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

— Michael Berryman

“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