I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. - Woodrow Wilson
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. - Tom Petty
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virgina Woolfe
The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak. - Robert Heinlein
The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. - Tatyana Tolstaya
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor. - Edward Albee
Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers. - Paul Goodman
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