Quotes About Censorship

Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.

Book burners! I'll cut off your balls and rape your women!

America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

I would simply crush his windpipe so he could say no more offensive things to women.

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

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Free speech is life itself.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

"I will not kiss your f.ing flag"

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Hate speech is a creation of the Anti-Defamation League, which touts itself as "the world's leading anti-hate organization."[3] Like the analogous term "anti-Semitism," hate speech is any utterance which Jews at organizations like the ADL find offensive. As the incoherence of the Facebook guidelines have shown, it is impossible to understand the current wave of internet censorship unless we see it as a Jewish operation.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.

Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection.

The Internet Is for Porn

Censorship offends me.

He wanted writers like Titus Livius (in English, Livy) to speak their minds on this subject without fear or favor.

The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

You can hold it right there,' I said. 'I've already told you. You can't talk about people's sexuality like that. I'm not having it and I'm not putting it in the book.' 'You can put what

I controlled him and made sure that I pressed all the right buttons for a young audience. He didn't smoke. He didn't swear. He didn't have a gun. And he certainly wasn't homophobic.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.