Quotes About Censorship

The independence of content creation without fearing what's going to be censored has relieved a lot of filmmakers in India.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

Yes, there's still much good journalism to be found, if you know where to look. Yet, ask reporters who've been around a while, and many will tell you that a lot of good journalism is being left unpublished.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

I think that was my biggest fear - censoring myself and putting myself into a cookie cutter to be representative. But I think what I realised is we don't need that.

I think it is necessary to educate folks on trans issues and to make them aware of trans identities and normalise it, because it is normal. But when you're shielded from something, and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.

I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires. Then a banished writer, one of the best, scanning the list of excommunicated texts, became enraged: he'd been excluded! He rushed to his desk, full of contemptuous wrath, to write fierce letters to the morons in power — Burn me! he wrote with his blazing pen — Haven't I always reported the truth? Now here you are, treating me like a liar! Burn me!

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Chances are you have a deep connection to books because at some point you discovered that they were the one truly safe place to discover and explore feelings that are banished from the dinner table, the cocktail party, the golf foursome, the bridge game. Because the writers who mattered to you have dared to say I am a sick man. And because within the world of books there is no censure.

People ask where my political views and visions come from. That started practically when I was old enough to walk. We didn't get a TV for a while, but when we did, there was Oswald getting shot, live on TV in the living room. There was the Berlin wall going up, the bloody Vietnam war, Watergate, the race riots started by the police. Network news wasn't so censored then. You would see how badly wounded people where when they took them off the chopper. News wasn't all sanitized like it is today.