Quotes About Censorship

Cancel culture', as it's become known, is one of the very worst things about modern society, and it's driven by the same woke liberals who profess to stand for tolerance.

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Now early life is very impressible, and children ought not to learn what they will have to unlearn when they grow up; we must therefore have a censorship of nursery tales, banishing some and keeping others.

No-one is more hated, than he who speaks the truth. - (Plato)

Hitler Almanyas?'nda özel bir tutum yayg?nd?: Bilen konuÅŸmuyor, bilmeyen sormuyor ve soru sorana yan?t verilmiyordu.

Quien quema libros termina tarde o temprano por quemar hombres - Heinrich Heine

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.

There's maybe ten places in the country where free speech still works, but this isn't one of them.

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

Humans don't really like freedom of speech, Lukianoff told them, they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don't necessarily like your freedom of speech that much

Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty (of 'disproportionate response'). Had similar reporting taken place during World War II, the Western Allies would have been deemed the villains since Germany and Japan lost far more civilians than America or Britain.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

I pitched the idea that SpongeBob and Patrick learn a swearword. Everyone said no. I couldn't even use a bleep. So I used a dolphin sound instead.

No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

Although the press enjoys much more freedom of speech these days, and the internet provides the public with access to the world at large, domestic coverage of the government and its leaders is strictly censored. "Dissident voices" are swiftly silenced, while overseas anti-government websites are firewalled. All this is proof that despite a liberal attitude towards the economy, the government remains nervous at the thought of losing its firm grip on society.

In Japan censorship is practiced not only by the government when it tampers with textbooks but by the media, which police themselves.

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel.

The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary

The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.