Quotes About Censorship

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

Von Schnitzler's job was to show extracts from western television broadcast into the GDR—anything from news items to game shows to 'Dallas'—and rip it to shreds. 'That man radiated so much nastiness he simply wasn't credible. You'd come away feeling sullied, as if you'd spent half an hour atrociously badmouthing someone.

Law and Justice took over the state public broadcaster—also in violation of the constitution—firing popular presenters and experienced reporters. Their replacements, recruited from the far-right extremes of the online media, began running straightforward ruling-party propaganda, sprinkled with easily disprovable lies, at taxpayers' expense.

The incident illustrates the distinct absence of a communist sense of humor.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

In their opinion, writing was dangerous, like touching your privates or grimacing like a dingo.

It is a well-documented fact that pornography as a separate category did not exist until the nine-tenth century, when lawmakers throughout Europe ostensibly sought to protect a predominantly white, middle-class female population from sexually explicit material and - by extension - knowledge of their own sexuality.

If it was up to me, I'd get rid of Twitter to stop the fake profiles and people saying and doing what they want.

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

Second, the press, which has never been braver since, fought against martial law through covert resistance, or as the government called it 'deviant behaviour'.

Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.

I want the fascist Qur'an banned.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.