Quotes About Censorship

We seem to have entered precariously into a kind of totalitarianism that actually abhors free speech and punishes people for revealing their true selves. In other words: the actor's dream.

I was now looking at a new kind of liberalism, one that willingly censored people and punished voices, obstructed opinions and blocked viewpoints.

Everyone has to be the same, and have the same reactions to any given work of art, or movement or idea, and if you refuse to join the chorus of approval you will be tagged a racist or a misogynist. This is what happens to a culture when it no longer cares about art.

We seem to have entered precariously into a kind of totalitarianism that actually abhors free speech and punishes people for revealing their true selves. In other words: the actor's dream.

Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is the aperture to thought police, foolish and incompetent decision-making, and long-term decline.

Most of us are for freedom of expression when there's a danger that our own views will be suppressed. We're not all that upset, though, when views we despise encounter a little censorship here and there.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

My mother didn't like to hear profanity, and she certainly never spoke it. She had always told us that swearing was the sign of a lackluster vocabulary and, worse, a stunted imagination. There are so many interesting words to use, along or in combination, she said, that I don't know why anyone would fall back on one-syllable obscenities.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.

There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

He'd once explained that when he was a boy his very proper parents had forbidden him and his brothers to curse in the house so 'feather buckets' was the young boys coded way of saying 'f*ck it

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?

words are merely loose gravel until glued together by the mortar of obscenity.