Quotes About Censorship

Premature formulations based on a vision of reality that has been artificially censored to exclude data that fall outside the personal philosophy of the investigator must lead to dead-end conclusions.

Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn't matter what they were about. It didn't matter if the story was about an old woman or a squid attack—if it diverted emotion from the Dear Leader, it was dangerous.

Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it."

T]he Jew will surely raise a tremendous cry in his newspapers, if a hand is laid on his favorite nest, if a move is made to end this press mischief, and if this tool of education is brought under state control and no longer left in the hands of aliens and enemies of the people... A 30-cm shell hisses louder than a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers--so let them hiss!

In my eyes, the charge against Jewry became a grave one the moment I discovered their activities in the press, art, literature, and the theater. All protests to the contrary were now essentially futile. One needed only to look at the posters announcing the monstrous productions of the cinema and theater, and study the names of the authors who were so highly praised there, in order to become permanently unwavering.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I shall not today attempt further to define [pornography]… But I know it when I see it; and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

All my work is to express my fear that the faggot-niggers are going to try to fuck me with their big hard dicks!

All my work is an attempt to express my fear that the faggot-niggers are going to try to fuck me with their big hard dicks!

Because how dare we write our own stories, in our own voices?' CaZZ answers. 'True that,' Tanya says. 'Banning our books would be their way of erasing us, of making us — and the world we live in — invisible,' CaZZ says.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

I think 'The Simpsons' is in the right time slot because it's not a show for kids. It's too vulgar. And 'Ren and Stimpy' is worse. We would never do anything like that.

Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society.

One should not promote lyrics that are vulgar.

I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.