Quotes About Censorship

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Reprimir a un artista es delito, significa asesinar vida en gestación

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

Instantly two of the girls seized her and, as she involuntarily opened her lips to scream, one thrust a ball of clean rags into her mouth, thrusting it in so far that it effectually gagged her, nor could she expel the ball from her mouth.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Ultimately, overcoming personal censorship is about gaining independence--independence from ignorance!~ Adesiji Rabiu

Les choses à ne pas dire ne sont pas forcément les choses sales, au contraire. Il faut toujours raconter des saletés qu'on a en soi : c'est sain, c'est gai, c'est tonique. Non, les choses à ne pas dire sont d'un autre ordre – et ne vous attendez pas à ce que je vous l'explique, puisque ce sont précisément des choses à ne pas dire.

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit consent has demoralized weakened minds.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

North Korea is an unimaginable country. We aren't free to sing, say, wear or think what we want.

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

In a TV show, you are restricted to a lot of things. On television, you can't put the content you can put on web series and on the channels digitally.

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page of any revealing facts, or pretending to be with someone you aren't - is the antithesis of our foundation as a nation based on freedom of expression and association.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in Poland. Authors are somehow afraid of expressing what they really think or feel because they fear political consequences.