Quotes About Censorship

The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.

I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

'Annie Hall' and 'The Graduate' are incredible films. Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad?

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

We're allowed to say wonderful things about the Royal Family in the House of Commons. What you're not allowed to say is: anything that might be truthful, but that might upset them. So from time to time I've been pulled up because I've said things which I think are important.

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.