Quotes About Censorship

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

Forget I ever referred to my mother and screwing in the same sentence. That's just .... wrong. On so many levels.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.