Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

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.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

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.

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.

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

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.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

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

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.'

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

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.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

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?

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.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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

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

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

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

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

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

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

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.

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

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.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

There should be no censorship of mail.

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

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

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.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

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

When 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.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.