Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction that reading leads to trouble. So it does; so it must, for reading leads nowhere but to questions.

Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

Women’s liberation fought for the right of women to leave the home and become involved in the public sphere; feminists now want to convert this realm into a series of safe spaces and censored zones. If you don’t like what someone says to you on the street, say something back, put your headphones on, or just laugh – it’s really not that bad.

Why do some people feel offended by the word shit, but not by the word poop? Because some little old lady at the FCC decided that good citizens don't use the word shit, and suddenly using a word like shit or fuck becomes an act of civil disobedience. Suddenly a little four-letter word has the power to shock.

Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air – ban it all you want, it's still there.

Ye cannot make us now lesse capable, lesse knowing, lesse eagarly pursuing of the Truth, unlesse ye first make yourselves that made us so, lesse the lovers, lesse the founders of our true Liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formall, and slavish as ye found us, but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous as they were from whom ye have free'd us.

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Without the Nazis fewer people would have heard of the Bauhaus today and it would almost certainly seem a little less important. It is a pleasant irony.

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.

Burning is no answer.

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.

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.

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.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

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 is the mother of metaphor.

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

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

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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

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 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.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Free speech is life itself.