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Censorship Quotes
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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)
I abhor blatant censorship. That's exactly what happened tonight. I completely understand censorship in terms of FCC regulations. I don't always agree with them, but I understand them. Of course, the FCC does not allow certain words or graphic nudity, but blatant censorship, which was executed by Spike TV, should not be tolerated. This was just as reprehensible as the flagrant violation of censorship itself. (Quote by - Vince McMahon)
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)