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Censorship Quotes
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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)
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. (Quote by - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill)
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)