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Censorship Quotes
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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)