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Censorship Quotes
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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)