Quotes About Censorship

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

Der Kritisch-Aufgeklärte wird zunächst felsenfest behaupten, es gäbe keine Zensur in einer Demokratie, und wenn man ihm dann Beispiele nennt, wird er ungerührt erklären, dass es gut sei, wenn gewisse Tatsachen und Ansichten nicht veröffentlicht würden.

The purest of virtue signaling can be seen in the likes of what was found on actor James Franco's now-deleted Instagram page. Franco's brief bio included the caveat "if you're racist, sexist, or homophobic, get the f*** out of here." It takes courage to stand up to "racists," but writing out the F-word is a bridge too far, apparently.

Your Christ, the Church's Christ, is a god made in the image of effete men who've never had a good fuck in their lives, or if they have, who've thrashed themselves with whips to relieve their guilt. They hate their own cocks so much they'd light votive candles to make them fall off, if it would do the trick.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world thinks and acts.

Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

So, now that I look like this, I'm okay? I'm not a freak because I look like you do? Well, you can go fuck yourself." Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

L'avantage de tenir un discours moral, c'est que ce type de propos a été soumis à une censure si forte, et depuis tant d'années, qu'il provoque un effet d'incongruité et attire aussitôt l'attention de l'interlocuteur ; l'inconvénient, c'est que celui-ci ne parvient jamais à vous prendre tout à fait au sérieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

Lo terrible es hasta qué punto ya no se puede decir nada... Nietzsche, Schopenhauer y Spinoza no serían aceptados hoy. Lo políticamente correcto, con la magnitud que ha adquirido, hace inaceptable casi toda la filosofía occidental. Hay cada vez más cosas sobre las que es imposible pensar. Es aterrador.

La gente necesita sexo, eso es todo, lo que pasa es que no se atreve a confesarlo.

eight other states already have what are known as "no promo homo" laws, which, like the original "don't say gay" bill, restrict to varying degrees what educators can say about homosexuality.

Under the Code, actresses lost their edge, their ability to surprise. As one studio executive grumbled, "The leading lady must start out good, stay good, and be whitewashed for the finish." Consigned by censorship to a fantasy land of purity, they lost their social relevance. After all, what is the point of a Kay Francis movie in which Kay Francis is less sophisticated than the viewer?

After the Code, crime films, adventures, gangster films, war movies, and comedies all continued to get produced, with some adjustments. But the social dramas that took a woman's point of view, that remained on the woman's side from start to finish, requiring of her no last-minute conversion, apology, or reversion to happy subservience, all but disappeared. One can infer the intent of censorship by seeing what exactly got censored.

Não tenho medo das palavras, mas calo-me.

That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.

Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.

In other words, they were unwilling to tolerate conservative speech, which they were intolerant of conservative speech.

Given that (a) early feminists were steadfastly opposed to censorship and abortion, and (b) modern feminists are steadfastly committed to censorship and abortion, is it fair to say the feminist movement has lost its way? In other words, Diane, why can't you be more like Susan B. Anthony?

Grace gets censored when we write these devilish decrees for our lives. Secret commandments get scrawled on personal tablets of shame, and we live life as if our stories belong on a discount rack rather than as valued, cherished children of God. We let a moment of pain cut us off from a lifetime of grace.

We still couldn't use "ass" any way we pleased. In one script, we had the phrase "up his ass"; Fox censors asked us to change it to "in his ass." That seemed worse, but we did as they asked.

A minister in Iowa burned the book in his church parking lot. (This is not as bad as it sounds—before they can burn it, they've got to buy it.)