Censorship Quotes
The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
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.
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.
Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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.
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.