Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

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

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

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

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

I don't believe in censorship.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

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.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

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.

Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

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

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

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

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

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

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.

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

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden