Top 1200 Self-Censorship Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

Censorship should never go. But we can always give a little more space to the director.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

I haven't watched any shows online but I know that the content is not crippled by censorship and is much more experimental.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

The question "Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage?" is one you must consistently ask yourself if you are committed to having all that you want and all that you deserve. When you love yourself you feel worthy and deserving of claiming the gifts of this world. Self-love gives you peace of mind and balance. Self-love gives you self-respect and the ability to respect others. It gives you the confidence to stand up and ask for what you want. Self-love is the main ingredient in a successful, fulfilled life.

We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

The process of self-healing is the privilege of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is self-healing a dramatization of the personality as though you could do something superior. Self-healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul.

Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore he is distinguished; from self-glorification, therefore he has merit; from self-exaltation, therefore he rises superior to all. Inasmuch as he does not strive, there is no one in the world who can strive with him.

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good.” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.

Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your periphery is meaningful. And there are many problems. The ego can be taught and the ego can be made docile and the ego can be forced to be obedient. The ego can be made to adjust, but not the Self. The Self cannot be taught, the Self cannot be forced. The Self is intrinsically rebellious, individual. It cannot be made a part of society.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.