Best Censorship Words
350 Censorship quotes by 250 unique authors
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ…
— Unknown Author
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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is…
— Edward Albee
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The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then…
— Thurman Arnold
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The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of…
— Unknown Author
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The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of…
— Unknown Author
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So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk…
— Gunter Grass
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate…
— William O. Douglas
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
— Vaclav Havel
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I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual…
— William Borah
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
— Ai Weiwei
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Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If…
— Tatyana Tolstaya
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.
— M. Shadows
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Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool,…
— Michael Anti
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Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
— Unknown Author
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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,…
— George Orwell
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While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own…
— Bill Hicks
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Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people, otherwise they won't…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that…
— Langston Hughes
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I believe in censorship when it benefits me.
— Howard Stern
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The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.
— George Carlin
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