Censorship Quotes

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

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

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

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

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

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.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

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.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

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

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

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.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

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

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

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.

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

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

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

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.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Poems are difficult to silence.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.