A Quote by Susan Jacoby

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.

Susan Jacoby

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Susan Jacoby
American - Author
Born: June 4, 1945

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor for social media as well.

Vijayashanti

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).

Wilfrid Sheed

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

Helene Cixous

China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

Naval Ravikant

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.

Gloria Steinem

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

Maz Jobrani

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

D. H. Lawrence

Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

Pipilotti Rist

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

Spike Lee

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

Thomas I. Emerson

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Laurence J. Peter

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Herbert Marcuse

I believe that feminists of the more aggressive persuasion are frustrated women unable to find the proper male leadership. If a woman were receiving the right kind of love and attention and leadership, she would not want to be liberated from that.

Tony Evans

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

Quentin Tarantino

Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in pornography is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichés of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.

Annette Messager

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

J. M. Coetzee

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