Quotes About Censorship

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

There's nothing wrong with pornography. It's good for you. If politicians stuck to pornography the world wouldn't be in such a mess.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

la mojigatería no es más que la cara opuesta de la lascivia.

Sin embargo, debido a la censura de los últimos años, ponían parches negros sobre los senos desnudos y empleaban eufemismos para designar conceptos prohibidos, como aborto, culo y libertad.

pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

For Ghana to suggest that they will turn off the Internet, in addition to other countries that have done it like Uganda, Zimbabwe, DRC, Burundi, Chad and others, that's worrying.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

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.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Everyone must turn to Infowars as a standard to be saved. Tell folks, 'Hey, it's the most censored thing in the world for a reason. Jones is dialed in. Jones knows what's going on.'

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

Shutting down conservatives has become de rigueur. But now anti-free-speech activists are increasingly turning their ire on free-thinking progressives.