Quotes About Censorship

There is nothing so delightful, so pure, so innocent or enjoyable that some group has not forbidden it.

Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it's actually lucrative for me. We call Banned Books Week in my house "Big-Assed Royalties Week.

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgments. It's the job of a parent to guide his/her child through the reading of every book imaginable. Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.

The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist since James Joyce.

Volumes upon volumes on exploration, war, violence, the life-threatening transformative journeys of man. But you can't talk about this. The fucking, the sadness, the dark, the blood, the light. They will burn you at the fucking stake for this shit.

Là dove si danno alle fiamme i libri, si finisce per bruciare anche gli uomini»,

Also, this library admits (is allowed to admit on certain conditions) some books forbidden generally by the censureship, which is of the strictest; and though Balzac appears very imperfectly, I am delighted to find him at all

People who read Taryn's book often quoted Heine: '"Where they have burned books at the end they will burn people." That's what your book is about,' he said. 'That's where its whole argument leads.

In Avoca, Pennsylvania, an Austrian American was accused of criticizing the Red Cross. A group of vigilantes tied him up, hoisted him thirty feet in the air, and blasted him with water from a fire hose for a full hour.

It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit.

The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.

NÆ°á»›c nào không có tá»± do báo chí thì cÅ©ng không th? có dân ch?.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.

With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.