Censorship Quotes

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.

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.

There's more than one way to be a girl

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.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

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.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

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

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship

There should be no censorship of mail.

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

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

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.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Free speech is life itself.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

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

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.