Quotes About Censorship

Can anyone calculate the dollar amount that has been spent to put duct tape over women's mouths in comparison to the amount these companies have paid women to write or direct? I want to compare the money spent on quieting every unspoken truth against every unsold screenplay, unpublished article, and rejected application.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The newspapers, censored, managed to report these rumors by carrying stories in which they deplored the spreading of rumors, or, as the newspapers put it, the propagation of falsehoods detrimental to public security. In order to deplore the falsehoods it was of course necessary to detail them, which was the trick.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.

American society has willfully deleted the fact of homosexual behavior from its mind, laundering things as they come along, in order to maintain a more comfortable illusion. The censors removed it; the critics said, "Well, look! It isn't there"; and anyone who still saw it was labeled a pervert

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".

Sanitizing the past is every bit as morally irresponsible as whitewashing atrocities in the present.

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.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

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

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

I'm a bit of a potty mouth. My dad used to wash out my mouth with soap, but that was just to get rid of any traces of his DNA.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

You can't expose that breast on the street. You can't have a breast exposed in the middle of Manhattan at twelve-fifteen at 116th Street and Broadway.

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.