Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

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 defeats the right to self determination.

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 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 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.

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.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

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

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

Don't join the book burners!

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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.

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

Free speech is life itself.

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.

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

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 don't believe in censorship.

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

I believe in freedom of expression, 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 the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.