Quotes About Censorship

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

I hate political correctness.

Political correctness kills discussion.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Political correctness, to me, is an enemy.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

I just think political correctness is crap.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

Political correctness is evil.

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

The Internet is a politically contested space.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

The I&B Ministry, at their own convenience, can't pick and choose content in serials. We have weird commercials with a lot of objectionable content running on TV post 11 P.M., but nothing has been done to stop them?

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.