Freedom Quote by Robert Trivers

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

— George Carlin

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

— Frances M. Jones

“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

“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

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

— James Harvey Robinson

“[Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is the aperture…

— Carl Sagan

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty.…

— Susan Sontag

“And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a…

— G.R. Reader

The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what…

— Bhumi Pednekar

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

— Pat Frank

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