Censorship Quotes · Page 7

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

— Steven Spielberg

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

— David Ben-Gurion

Political correctness is... Politically correct term for, Censorship.

— David Cha

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

— Marc Chandler

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

— Jimmy Wales

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

— Cynthia McKinney

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul...

— Israel Zangwill

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

— Raftaar

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

— Henry Steele Commager

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

— Bahman Ghobadi

“It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.”

— Frances M. Jones

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write…

— Stefan Heym

A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam…

— Claire Fox

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get…

— Mark Twain

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is…

— Olga Tokarczuk

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die…

— Anonymous

If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in…

— Joe Lieberman

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to…

— William O. Douglas

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is…

— Winston Churchill

For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic…

— Charles C. Pixley

When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as…

— Stephen Chbosky

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives…

— Juan Williams

“This book is irrelevant to Goodreads because you can’t buy it on Amazon. Also it talks about oppression, censorship etc. and no…

— G.R. Reader

“Earthlog 3002-3003 In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't.…

— Rachel Vail

“What are the consequences when the government, the media, and the leaders of commerce all speak with one voice? Why, it means…

— Charles Stross

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

— Michel de Montaigne

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the…

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Shirley Temple

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable…

— George Will

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

— George Orwell

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of…

— Seth Godin

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

— Alice Mattison

“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”

— Ray Bradbury