Atheism Quote by Walter Lippmann

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is…

— Catherine Breillat

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

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

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an…

— Judith Crist

Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the…

— Pablo Antonio Cuadra

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

Denouncing someone for his views is kosher. But intimidation and coercion - including the kind of economic coercion that threatens jobs and livelihoods -…

— Norah Vincent

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

— Storm Jameson

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

— Paul Vitz

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

— Thomas I. Emerson