Modern life Quote by Ray Bradbury

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority…

— Ray Bradbury

“It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.”

— Frances M. Jones

“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.”

— Pat Frank

“Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“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

“By 1955 thirteen states had passed laws regulating the publication, distribution, and sale of comic books. Leading intellectuals, including C. Wright Mills, praised Wertham's efforts.70”

— James T. Patterson

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print,"…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Sadly, too many today take for granted public schools, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality before the law, forgetting that these were ever…

— David McCullough

“freedom of the press from prior censorship was instituted in 1695.”

— Thomas Sowell

“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“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

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value…

— Virginia Woolf