The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
John Gilmour

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
John Gilmore

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
Penn Jillette

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
Craig Bruce

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
Tommy Smothers

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Joichi Ito

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
Milos Forman

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

There should be no censorship of mail.
Barbara Deming

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
Robert Bourassa

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
Max Cannon

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
Uta Hagen

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
Kathy Acker

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Matthew Lesko