Quotes About Censorship

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing.

The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

Free speech is never out of the news.

Obviously I'm 100-percent for freedom of expression.

The freedom of expression cannot be defined selectively.

Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.