Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Free speech is life itself.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

I don't believe in censorship.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship.

If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or favoring their own friends and affiliates and customers who can pay for fast lanes, that's a horrible infringement on free speech. It's censorship by media monopolies. It's tragic: here we have a technology, the internet, that's capable really of being the town square of democracy, paved with broadband bricks, and we are letting it be taken over by a few gatekeepers. This is a first amendment issue; it's free speech versus corporate censorship.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

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

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship