Becomes Quote by Ma Jian

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too much information,…

— Anne Applebaum

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

— Gore Vidal

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

— Charlie Waite

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places…

— Wendell Berry

“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

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great…

— Rick Scarborough

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned…

— Margaret Bald

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

— Anonymous

The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old…

— Eudora Welty