Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you...

You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly. 'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud. 'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen. I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth.

You're sad but you hold everything back...

youtube has been told to get rid of anything that disputes the official narrative of total lies

Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all wine out of the country, lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

Burning is no answer.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Don't join the book burners!

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

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 is life itself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.