Best 381 quotes in «censorship quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Burning is no answer.

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

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 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.

Don't join the book burners!

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.

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

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

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

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

Every burned book enlightens the world.

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.

Free speech is life itself.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

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

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

I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

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.