Censorship Quotes · Page 27

There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people…

— John Hughes

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to…

— Alanis Morissette

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Joe Mantegna

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go…

— Robert Towne

There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more…

— Chris Carter

“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

Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering…

— Richard Hofstadter

Free speech is life itself.

— Salman Rushdie

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an…

— Julius Lester

“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

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

— Winston Churchill

Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually…

— Stephen Fry

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.”

— Helmut Newton

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

— Mark Twain

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

— William Randolph Hearst

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who…

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Storm Jameson

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

— Penn Jillette

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

— Holbrook Jackson

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

— Dan Gillmor