Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

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.

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.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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

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

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

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

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 member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

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

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

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.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?

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.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

There should be no censorship of mail.

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

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

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.