Quotes About Censorship

Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives.

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.

I'm convinced that no normal human being ever woke up one morning and said, "Dammit, my life doesn't have enough petty bureaucratic rules, zero-tolerance policies, censorship, and fear in it. How do I fix that?

names that were so bad that when they dared to whisper them (bitch-cunt-whore-poet) to each other beneath the bedclothes, they were like poison in the air.

The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.

Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.

She says her only wish is to get out of this country, where there is no life, no freedom. 'They have killed off beauty, and art, and literature and all that is beautiful and good in life. Press freedom? This is what they call press freedom! If someone has the courage to write things as they are, prison is the result, ' she says.

Take this. It's one of my gothics. The seventies were, sadly, not the time to include sex scenes of any satisfying nature. When the lights go out, you can imagine the hero and heroine are lying in bed, fully clothed, making shadow puppets on the wall.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.

They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd

The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

Well, specifically, Mrs. MacNeil, she advised me to keep my goddamn fingers away from her cunt.