Quotes About Censorship

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.

It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.

Censorship in the schools that denies intellectual freedom to teachers robs the student of that same freedom. And the freedom to learn is clearly no less precious than the freedom to teach.

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

When I found out that my mom was sneaking listening to my music, I decided to make sure that my music is very clean.

It's just more mushroom farming, ain't it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…

Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite.

Censura respecto al sexo? Más bien se ha construido un artefacto para producir discursos sobre el sexo, siempre más discursos, susceptibles de funcionar y de surtir efecto en su economía misma.

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

Konstitucija, žinoma, garantuoja žodžio laisvÄ™, bet ?statymai baudžia už bet kÄ…, kas gali bÅ«ti laikoma pasikÄ—sinimu ? valstybÄ—s saugumÄ…. Niekad nežinai, kada valstybÄ— ims Å¡aukti, kad Å¡is ar anas žodis kÄ—sinasi ? jos saugumÄ…. TodÄ—l kompromi­tuojan?ius raÅ¡inius jis nusprendÄ— paslÄ—pti saugioje vietoje.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.