Top 478 Censorship Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
In most cases, the only genuine victims of the 'safe places' demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.
Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.
In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.
You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.
The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.
I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.
The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film's theatrical run.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
