Quotes About Censorship

I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

No empañes las palabras con hipócritas silencios censuradores.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Had David Irving been the defendant in a case seeking to censor his lies, and had he lost, it might be argued that the loss compromised principles of free speech. But Irving was the plaintiff here. It was he who was trying to censor Lipstadt's truth by suing her for defamation.

Political correctness … is a euphemism for 'that which offends the left.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.

D'Arvit!" growled Root. (There is no point translating that word, as it would have to be censored.)

There was nothing on the TV. Except pay-per-view and I refuse to buy programmes, on principle. Except that chef guy with the foul mouth.

they used merkins on shoots to avoid X ratings; prosthetic hair was an R, but real hair was an X.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Not until 1992 did the Catholic Church admit publicly that it had erred in the matter of censoring Galileo's ideas.

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

While 'Yaariyan' took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.