Quotes About Censorship

Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices.

I've been silenced in America.

It is clearly a political move to remove 8chan from Cloudflare. It has forced a lot of people to find other places to talk. It has dispersed a peacefully assembled group of people talking. This silenced them effectively.

In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

There was nothing any of us could write about except what we were allowed to see, which was a concert like any other, a few staged welcome performances, and the usual tourist sites. It was a lesson in control and manipulation. The real audience was not those in the concert hall but the journalists whose role was to deliver a sanitized version of North Korea to the outside world, and what shocked me was how easily seduced they were.

North Korea had a random feeling to it; there seemed to be no pattern, no rhyme or reason to what aspects of Western culture—whether an icon like Michael Jordan or the detritus of the culture—might be allowed in.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Por esa época, José Cadalso Vásquez escribe: <>. Se refiere, por supuesto, a la vigilancia impuesta por la Santa Inquisición sobre el intelecto — y la sexualidad—de los españoles — y también de los americanos—

Habrá hombre de sangre tan fría que no brame de ira al ver entrar a un ignorante ministro el tribunal que en tono despótico manda abrir los estantes, registra los libros que con tanto afán y gastos se han adquirido, y los lleva a podrirse amontonados en una sala del al Inquisición, con miles otros que han tenido la misma suerte?

Banned books always smell suspicious

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

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals -- only of his rights.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Thats not a bad word, hate and war are bad words, fuck isnt.

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

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.