Quotes About Censorship

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

A writer cannot be a Pollyanna. He is in the business of writing what other people think but don't say

I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

The goons are at the gate again. Beware my friends, lest they be you. (from "Censorship")

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

Wij hebben geen onvervreemdbaar en 'natuurlijk' recht op het vrije woord. Elke samenleving zal bepaalde uitingen pornografisch of opruiend achten en taboe verklaren. De betekenis van zowel 'vrij' als 'woord' wordt doorlopend aangepast om aan de behoeften van de gemeenschap tegemoet te komen.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!