Censorship Quotes
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. (Quote by - Beaumarchais)
As with the issue of censorship, while we understand the seriousness of the crisis that Sri Lanka faces, we call on the government to avoid restrictions of civil liberties. (Quote by - Philip Reeker)
Americans have a very narrow focus when it comes to censorship. You can perpetuate hate speech as long as you don't curse. (Quote by - Aden Darity)
The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. (Quote by - Tommy Smothers)
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. (Quote by - Granville Hicks)
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. (Quote by - Dr. Laurence Peter)
Censorship and thought- control are apparently alive and well at the University of Idaho. This is an assault on academic freedom, and a barefaced violation of the Constitution's guarantee of free speech. (Quote by - John West)
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. (Quote by - Lyndon Baines Johnson)
If you start saying what (events) units of the university can and cannot sponsor, it's going to lead to censorship. (Quote by - Matt Skinner)
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. (Quote by - Charles Bradlaugh)
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. (Quote by - John Gilmour)
Though I disagree with everything you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Quote by - NOT Voltaire; it was some scholar that was studying Voltaire, and summed up his beliefs in this statement)
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write. (Quote by - Hugo L. Black)
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. (Quote by - Alfred Whitney Griswold)
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship. (Quote by - Jameel Jaffer)
I do not condone illegal activity, .. But I can't stand here today and say that I condone censorship. (Quote by - Marc Ecko)
Researchers did not propose any restrictions or censorship, saying, We do not suggest that we want to dictate the message. .. We are suggesting they need to be tied to the consequences that are realistic, given our experiences in American life. (Quote by - Barry McCaffrey)
We will mark February 01 as black day as press freedom was snatched and censorship was imposed on that day. (Quote by - Bishnu Nisthuri)
Obviously, the danger is not in the actual act of reading itself, but rather, the possibility that the texts children read will incite questions, introduce novel ideas, and provoke critical inquiry. (Quote by - Persis M. Karim)
This process of self- censorship is ubiquitous and that those who do it believe that they are doing the right thing. That they call it "sensitivity" and "fairness" review without realizing that they are censoring to placate pressure groups, or in anticipation of protests. (Quote by - Diane Ravitch)
That's a very alarming number. The situation is very comparable to Colombia in terms of self- censorship and the level of violence. (Quote by - Joel Simon)
The rest of the world has certainly got past this. This kind of censorship no longer exists anywhere else in the free world. (Quote by - Robert Lantos)
Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. (Quote by - Richard King)
This country and our Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and association. Censorship at our borders is directly contrary to fundamental American values. Attempts to suppress freedom of speech and association are beneath our country - not to mention a waste of government resources intended to keep Americans safe. (Quote by - Caroline Fredrickson)
We're not involved in this to bring about censorship. (Quote by - Ted Stevens)
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenalis )
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. (Quote by - Thurgood Marshall)
If I have to allow censorship in order to do business there, then that's what I have to do. It's called capitalism. If the U.S. government felt so strongly about China, why isn't the government doing something about Tibet or sanctioning China because of its human- rights violations. (Quote by - Mukul Krishna)
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. (Quote by - John Pilger)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I hope people realize that banning the truth, as well as fiction, is proof that ignorance is dangerous to freedom. (Quote by - Jen)
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. (Quote by - Milton, Areopagitica)
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. (Quote by - John Perry Barlow)
the interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. (Quote by - John Paul Stevens)
Censorship is advertising paid by the government. (Quote by - Federico Fellini)
The Chinese censorship mechanism is not just looking for subversive elements. It is also looking at the ideas of 'moral rightness' in society. For example, there are controls on things like pornography, or other elements that the state deems as unpalatable for the population. (Quote by - Alexander Neill)
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. (Quote by - Theodore Schroeder)
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The Internet gave the Chinese people a way around their government's censorship, so the Chinese government has picked off U.S. technology providers one by one and made them gatekeepers instead of gateways. As long as you have companies with competing motives, there is the danger of further censorship. (Quote by - Mickey Spiegel)
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
We see it as a bold show that deals with issues of censorship and social and cultural topics. My line on South Park is that it properly offends everybody by design and by doing so it reminds us all that it's probably a good idea to be tolerant. It's also a very inventive and clever show. (Quote by - Horace Newcomb)
President Arroyo's actions could usher in a new era of press censorship and intimidation. (Quote by - Barbara Cochran)
Arthur is free to use that word censorship if he wants. We are in the business of selling paintings and art. And song lyrics are not our expertise. (Quote by - Sam Adams)
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859)
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. (Quote by - Gen William C. Westmoreland)
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people. (Quote by - Kenneth Anger)
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. (Quote by - John Palfrey)
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
The paper burns, but the words fly away. (Quote by - Akiba ben Joseph)
Government censorship can slow down, but can't reverse this trend. (Quote by - Xiao Qiang)
The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not. (Quote by - Jameel Jaffer)
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
The most common examples of book censorship are in schools and public libraries, and all those examples are most often involving children's literature. Political groups attempt to remove books from library shelves because those books use 'naughty' words, do not have happy endings... or because they have too many rainbows. Rainbows are considered a sign of 'New Age' religiosity. Little Red Riding Hood was the 24th most banned book in the early 90's mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. Many organizations demanded a non (Quote by - alcohol Little Red. They were successful sometimes in their efforts, by the way. (Quote by - Herbert Foerstel)
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. (Quote by - Henry Steele Commager)
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (Quote by - Abbott Joseph Liebling, Do You Belong in Journalism? New Yorker, 4 May 1960)
Did you ever hear anyone say, That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me? (Quote by - Joseph Henry Jackson)
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. (Quote by - Walter Cronkite, 1980)
If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas. (Quote by - Graceanne A. Decandido)
It's a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form. (Quote by - Matthew Aid)
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by your government's harassment and censorship of journalists,. (Quote by - Ann Cooper)
The idea that immigration law is being used as a tool of censorship is unacceptable. By regulating speech at our borders, we are sending the wrong message to the world. We must not have a double standard regarding the freedom of speech and dissent. That is one of the strengths of our democracy. (Quote by - Caroline Fredrickson)
The freedom of the individual and rights of conscience will have no place in a society where government espouses a particular religious view of morality, one that has no room for deviation from the norm. (Quote by - Arlene Carmen)
This is censorship of the worst kind. (Quote by - Vanessa Redgrave)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
Americans ought to be concerned about censorship and the use of information by our government. Similarly, we are citizens of the world, and collectively we ought to advocate an approach to information worldwide that is as open and transparent as possible. (Quote by - Kirk Hanson)
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. (Quote by - Gen William C. Westmoreland)
Only the suppressed word is dangerous. (Quote by - Ludwig Börne)
Censorship and hate speech laws don't protect GOOD IDEAS…they protect BAD ONES. They keep them alive and push them underground. If someone is engaging in HATE SPEECH, you don't silence them. You don't tell them to shut up.…You say, "COME OVER HERE AND SAY THAT" You say, "BRING IT ON"….. (Quote by - Jules Carlysle)
All despotisms should be considered problems of mental hygiene, and all support of censorship should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology. (Quote by - Theodore Schroeder)
Every burned book enlightens the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet. (Quote by - John Palfrey)
Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. (Quote by - Allan Jenkins)
The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. (Quote by - Tommy Smothers)
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it. (Quote by - Mae West)
Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry. (Quote by - Witold Walczak)
The long- term consequence is a higher degree of self- censorship. Society is the poorer when deprived of the marketplace of ideas. (Quote by - Robert O'Neil)
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859)
The crux of the matter as we saw it is that it's censorship. It's a great thing (the students) are encouraging speech. (Quote by - Larry Mays)
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. (Quote by - David Ben-Gurion)
We live in oppressive times.We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial viability'. (Quote by - Mamet, David Alan)
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. (Quote by - Golda Meir, Israeli political leader )
We're not, in any way, any kind of a censorship organization. We're not anti- media. We believe very strongly in the importance of the First Amendment. (Quote by - David Walsh)
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
We will mark February one as black day as press freedom was snatched and censorship was imposed on that day. (Quote by - Bishnu Nisthuri)
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self- censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard. (Quote by - Franco Fabbri)
All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC. Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire. (Quote by - Judy Blume)
Censorship is the height of vanity. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
There's no human censorship at kiosks. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
Banning a piece of literature is a political act. (Quote by - Immanuel Mifsud)
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. (Quote by - Nancie J. Carmody)
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Quote by - Lillian Hellman)
One man's vulgarity is another's lyric. (Quote by - John Marshall Harlan)
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. (Quote by - Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971)
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. (Quote by - Voltaire)
To reject the word is to reject the human search. (Quote by - Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging)
Any kind of censorship is wrong. If you got a student publication on your campus, it has every right to be critical of the administration in the same way the Tribune or Sun- Times has the right to criticize the governor. (Quote by - Ron Yates)
Once you start, the appetite for censorship knows no boundaries. (Quote by - Bill Lockyer)
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. (Quote by - Peter S. Jennison)
The guy, since he started, has felt censorship shouldn't apply, and this is a move he's earned. (Quote by - Jason Hill)
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. (Quote by - Joseph Lewis)
Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts. (Quote by - Greg Lukianoff)
Isn't it ironic that an education group would engage in censorship?. (Quote by - Brian Schubert)
The best censorship is self- censorship, and China relies on solid work by the secret police to make people censor themselves and keep the Internet under control. (Quote by - Xiao Qiang)
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. (Quote by - Richard King)
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. (Quote by - Bernardo Bertolucci)
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
What Mr. Wang is saying is that the media should exercise self- censorship; that they should have blacklists of people and organizations they should ban, and also we should be very careful when we cover Taiwan affairs, .. That is very, very worrying. (Quote by - Emily Lau)
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. (Quote by - Mae West)
Even to the present day, we so often condemn books that were written to fight the very things we claim to be fighting. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is so often cited as being racist, when it was written against slavery and racism. (Quote by - Jamey Fletcher)
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. (Quote by - Rebecca MacKinnon)
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Every time the president wants to say something important they cut it .. this is blatant censorship and an attempt to prevent him from getting his voice across. (Quote by - Khalil Dulaimi)
We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions that were checking on Russian citizens going abroad. I am very happy that in history my name will be connected to this period. (Quote by - Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do. (Quote by - Jonathan Zittrain)
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. (Quote by - Charles Austin Beard)
We're not going to get into the censorship business. We're just giving them smart advice. (Quote by - David Plati)
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. (Quote by - Euripides)
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud, 1933)
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
We're not in the business of censorship. It is not up to a government official to determine whose opinion is right and whose is wrong. (Quote by - Linton Johnson)
Unfortunately, the proponents of censorship won out by inflaming false fears that this critical analysis lesson plan is the equivalent of teaching intelligent design. (Quote by - Casey Luskin)
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Free speech not only lives, it rocks! (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?. (Quote by - John Hughes)
I have a right to say these things without censorship. Isn't it the duty of an opinion writer to be provocative and stir debate?. (Quote by - Jillian Bandes)
When he was minister of culture we had few problems with things like censorship, .. Now we have many. (Quote by - Mohammad Khatami)
If censorship reigns there cannot be sincere flattery, and only small men are afraid of small writings. (Quote by - Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais)
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
Equally troubling is the reality that western firms are effectively facilitating censorship in China and jeopardizing the welfare of journalists. Fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, should not be negotiated away in return for market access. Western businesses have a leadership role to play in encouraging best business practices in local markets, including in the information sector. (Quote by - Jennifer Windsor)
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. (Quote by - Katherine Paterson)
Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. (Quote by - Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935)
To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of the great American books. It covers some important topics like censorship, literacy and gender, which are still very much prevalent today as they were during that time. (Quote by - Hilery Walker)
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Only extremists enjoy censorship. (Quote by - Mark Camilleri)
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
The key to effective censorship is to make sure no one's looking, and this time everyone was watching. If BLM can point to a single other instance where it has suspended scientific research because of alleged illegal lobbying, I'll eat my hat. (Quote by - Andy Stahl)
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. (Quote by - Robert H. Jackson)
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. (Quote by - Harold R. Medina)
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. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. (Quote by - Ethan Zuckerman)
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. (Quote by - Robert Towne)
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? (Quote by - Juvenal)
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
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. (Quote by - Jack Valenti)
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book. (Quote by - James Walker)
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. (Quote by - Ben Lindsey)
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. (Quote by - Mae West)
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
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,. (Quote by - Gerald Nicosia)
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. (Quote by - Elias Lyman Maggon)
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards. (Quote by - William E. Borah)
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Quote by - Goethe)
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy- handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. (Quote by - William Blum)
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. (Quote by - Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764)
Dealing with censorship has become our art how to say something with certain rules. (Quote by - Rafi Pitts)
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant'. (Quote by - Robert Anson Heinlein)
I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town. (Quote by - Paul Blake)
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. (Quote by - Michael Berryman)
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. (Quote by - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis)
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science. (Quote by - Cindy Cohn)
Censorship in China is nothing new, but the growing co- operation of U.S. technology companies in China's repressive policies is. (Quote by - Ann Cooper)
To say, 'don't have it', that's censorship. That's what is being done. That is what is being said by the control board letter and by the sheriff. (Quote by - Allen Lichtenstein)
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people. (Quote by - Glenn Miller)
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. (Quote by - James Robinson)
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The influence of these huge and powerful corporations on the media leads to a pernicious kind of censorship. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of these corporations own and control the media. In 1996 the Seagram Company ran a whiskey ad on an NBC affiliate in Texas, thus breaking the decades- old tradition of liquor ads not being carried on television. Although network television is leery of running liquor ads for fear of offending their beer advertisers, Advertising Age reported that Seagram might have a winning card to play, .. If Seagram came to us with a hard- liquor ad, we'd have to look at it. (Quote by - Cartoon Network)
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. (Quote by - John Berry)
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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. (Quote by - John Palfrey)
Instead we wanted to show how deeply entrenched self- censorship has already become. (Quote by - Tage Clausen)
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. (Quote by - Granville Hicks)
The Net interprets censorship as damage.. and routes around it. (Quote by - John Gilmore)
The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list. (Quote by - John Aikin)
Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship. (Quote by - Mark Chandler)
The Rolling Stones thought the censorship of their songs by the NFL/ABC was absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary. (Quote by - Fran Curtis)
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823)
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech, no discovery of truth is useful. (Quote by - Charles Bradlaugh)
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary. (Quote by - St. Jerome)
Aside from a few activists, most people don't really care about censorship. My impression is that the blocks and filters are seen as an annoyance by most Chinese internet users, not as a huge problem. (Quote by - Jeremy Goldkorn)
I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self- censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam. (Quote by - Flemming Rose)
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Quote by - John Morley)
You can cage the singer but not the song. (Quote by - Harry Belafonte)
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Censorship has a long history in Argentina and has been used as the first weapon of terror. (Quote by - Ana Maria Shua)
To hear one voice clearly, we must have freedom to hear them all. (Quote by - Kerry Brock, of the Freedom Forum, 1997)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Quote by - Voltaire)
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. (Quote by - Steven Spielberg)
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others. (Quote by - Andre P. Brink)
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. (Quote by - John Mortimer)
Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail. (Quote by - Alfred Whitney Griswold)
The Chinese leadership has been more severe in the censorship of the media, its crackdown on underground churches, dissidents and the Internet. (Quote by - Joseph Cheng)
This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?. (Quote by - Howard Simon)
There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,. (Quote by - John Carpenter)
In a nation founded on religious freedom, it is appalling that a kindergarten student would be subjected to censorship and humiliation simply for expressing his religious viewpoint. (Quote by - Tony Perkins)
This government has previously used intimidation to force people to do self- censorship but this time they've gone too far. (Quote by - Robert Bottome)
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. (Quote by - Harry A. Blackmun)
It's a prior restraint; it's state censorship. (Quote by - Jon Fleischaker)
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. (Quote by - John Milton)
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Quote by - Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky)
