Quotes About Censorship

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.