Critical Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

— Sidney Hook

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

— William O. Douglas

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever…

— Salman Rushdie

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and…

— Ernestine Rose

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or…

— Ayn Rand

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in…

— Thomas I. Emerson

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Charles Bukowski

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

— Charles Dickens

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

— PZ Myers

“Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. If our…

— Rebecca Solnit