Quotes About Censorship

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab.

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.'" Then he straightened and addressed Doug. "Which, by the way, was repeated sixty-seven times in this particular film. It has a running length of ninety-four minutes. So last night while watching it, she heard fuck, or a derivative thereof, spoken every one and a half minutes, give or take a few seconds. But if my saying fuck offended her, then I'm fucking sorry.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I want to start saying bad words all the time!

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

amaba tanto las ideas y se movía en ellas con tanta solvencia, fuera un convencido de que son éstas las que deben someterse si entran en contradicción con la realidad humana, pues, cuando ocurre al revés, las calles se llenan de guillotinas y paredones de fusilamiento y comienza el reinado de los censores y los policías.

Le régime avait compris qu'une personne qui sortait de chez elle en se demandant: est-ce que mon pantalon est assez long? est-ce que mon foulard est à sa place? est-ce que mon maquillage se voir? est-ce qu'ils vont me fouetter? ne se demandait plus: où est ma liberté de pensée? où est ma liberté de parole? ma vie, est-elle vivable? que se passe-t-il dans les prisons politiques?

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.

Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.

Visul este realizarea mascata a unei dorinte refulate. Este construit ca un simptom nevrotic, este o formatie de compromis intre necesitatea unei aspiratii instinctive refulate si rezistenta unei puteri cenzurate in eu. In virtutea unei origini asemanatoare el este la fel de incomprehensibil ca si simptomul si necesita, ca si acesta, o interpretare.

In this scheme, the 'unconscious' and the 'preconscious' are agencies or authorities (Instanzen) which the wish has to satisfy; the unconscious is more tolerant, and helps the wish to smuggle itself past the censorship of the preconscious. As a result, psychical energy is discharged without disturbing sleep.

We have formed the idea that in each individual there is a coherent organization of mental processes; and we call this his ego. It is to this ego that consciousness is attached; the ego controls the approaches to motility-that is, to the discharge of excitations into the external world; it is the mental agency which supervises all its own constituent processes, and which goes to sleep at night, though even then it exercises the censorship on dreams.

The state demands the utmost obedience and sacrifice of its citizens, but at the same time, it treats them as children through an excess of secrecy, and a censorship of news and expression of opinion, which render the minds of those who are, thus, intellectually repressed, defenseless against every unfavorable situation, and every wild rumor.

Um rosário de censuras a outras pessoas leva-nos a suspeitar da existência de um rosário de autocensuras de conteúdo idêntico.