Quotes About Censorship

The media is controlled.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.

As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Anybody can curse on a record.

I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like 'shoot' and 'fudge.' He didn't like curses. He didn't think it was necessary when other words would do.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

I didn't realize how limiting an R rating is. I made 'Disco' as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

You cannot prevent me from talking. I am exercising my right to free speech.

Labeling it 'political' is not going to stop me from talking about it.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.