I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical. — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to… — Vito Russo Copy Share Image
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,… — United Nations Copy Share Image
As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Unlike the anything-goes Greeks, the Romans felt a need to set some linguistic limits and invented censorship in the fifth century B.C.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's… — John Farndon Copy Share Image
“We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The current wave of book banning sweeping the country has created a chilling effect on our education system and the purchasing of… — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. — James G. Watt Copy Share Image
“Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.” — Martha Cornog Copy Share Image
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin! — Mae West Copy Share Image
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy. — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“bowdlerized, censored, suppressed and maybe even burned by the public hangman. But people who believe in this diabolical power of words and/or… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
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