Quote by Rick Atkinson

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

“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

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 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

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 this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers'…

— Judy Blume

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I wonder… if my letters had never been censored, would I understand freedom of speech?”

— Mel Ellis

“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

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

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