Best Censorship Proverbs
350 Censorship quotes by 250 unique authors
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Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
— Jonathan Zittrain
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While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
— Ethan Zuckerman
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We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly…
— Glenn Miller
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Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.
— Marc Chandler
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The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth…
— Michael Kimmelman
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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
— Walter Cronkite
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There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
— Robert Bourassa
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If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.
— Dan Gillmor
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
— George Will
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Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other…
— Julian Assange
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he…
— Anatole France
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
— Henry Louis Gates
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
— Martha Graham
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
— Henry Steele Commager
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
— Frederick Douglass
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
— Euripides
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
— Federico Fellini
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst…
— E. M. Forster
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Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
— Heinrich Heine
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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