Quotes About Censorship

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.

Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?

Seven months after the notorious Nazi book burning in 1933, Columbia University invited the German ambassador to speak on campus where

Not for the first time in his career, Brunetti reflected upon the possible advantage of censorship of the press.

power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.

the power of a free press. Its power was amplified when everyone had a voice. Theories without a foundation in facts or basis in reality could take flight and go viral. No barriers to entry. No editors. No fact checking, or if there was, it couldn't be trusted; "fact checkers" had biases and agendas, too, after all. The loudest voices dominated the chaos that was social media hysteria, and all of it contributed to the chaos. Suppression and censorship only fueled the flames.

If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.

While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.

Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf.

In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.

Pastor Hall was not the first anti-Nazi film to be barred by the board; in the previous two years, it had prohibited at least seven other such movies from being shown. At the same time, however, it allowed the release of Feldzug in Polen, a propaganda film produced by the German government that depicted the Wehrmacht's vanquishing of Poland in 1939 and portrayed Poland as the aggressor.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

The Fourth Symphony, one of his most fascinating and ingenious works, both brutal and intricate, would go unheard for a quarter of a century, silenced by fear.

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

My only plea is that all artists have to range the full extent of their own lives freely. The rest of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green till the day we die… callow-green in the hope of becoming fertile-green.

The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him. The

I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.

I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. Cock, I said to her.

Dildos are illegal in Texas.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

The preservation of morale itself became an aim. For if morale faltered, all else might as well. So free speech trembled.

Spain actually had few cases before May, but the country was neutral during the war. That meant the government did not censor the press, and unlike French, German, and British newspapers—which printed nothing negative, nothing that might hurt morale—Spanish papers were filled with reports of the disease, especially when King Alphonse XIII fell seriously ill.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.