Quotes About Censorship

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

I don't know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.