Censorship Quotes

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.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

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

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

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

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

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.

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

I don't believe in censorship.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.