Censorship Quotations | Page 2

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

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?

The guy, since he started, has felt censorship shouldn't apply, and this is a move he's earned.

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.

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,

Although Beijing has supported Internet use for education and business, it fiercely polices content. Filters block objectionable foreign Web sites, and regulations ban perceived subversive or pornographic content and require service providers to enforce censorship rules. When we operate in markets around the world, we have to ensure that our service complies with global laws as well as local laws and norms.

The Chinese leadership has been more severe in the censorship of the media, its crackdown on underground churches, dissidents and the Internet.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by your government's harassment and censorship of journalists,

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

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.

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.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

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.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Free speech is life itself.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

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.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Don't join the book burners!

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

People die, but books never die.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!