“Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.”
Henry Steele Commager
“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.”
“One's right to express oneself is a basic freedom.”
Ingram Bondin
“Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.”
Mark Chandler
“‘Only extremists enjoy censorship’”
Mark Camilleri
“The long-term consequence is a higher degree of self-censorship. Society is the poorer when deprived of the marketplace of ideas.”
Robert O'Neil
“the interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.”
John Paul Stevens
