Assassination Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assassination Censorship
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship. — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra 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 discretion. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting… — Ann Leckie Copy Share
We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on him and declared him a hero of Islam. That is a matter of concern for every peace-loving citizen of Pakistan because terrorists and killers should not be given this type of encouragement. And this is encouragement… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image