Quotes About Censorship

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

Some men are just disgusted with me and think I should have my mouth sewn shut.

When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in.

When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

I always fill the chat box, almost every day, and end up deleting my heart.

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

at once, the diet and skin care industries became the new cultural censors of women's intellectual space, and because of their pressure, the gaunt, youthful model supplanted the happy housewife as the arbiter of successful womanhood.

Why are books burned? Through stupidity, ignorance, hatred...goodness only knows.

Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder.

If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway.

We can't talk about Jesus. We can't mention that anymore.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

My own view is that only under very limited circumstances, and on a case-by-case basis, should we make advance policy decisions to artificially minimize information or censor it from the public's view.

was not that the Irish were uncritical, just that they saw no value in self-imposed censorship. They could have said with Terence, "Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto" ("I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to

in the month-by-month process of editorial criticism and censorship, Hardy never lost his fierce contempt for all forms of 'tampering with natural truth

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack and defence. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics. I think it as honorable to the government neither to know, nor notice, it's sycophants or censors, as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.