Quotes About Censorship

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.

there were things I thought needed saying and I knew that other people were reluctant to say them

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Every dictator gets rid of the artist first... They burn the books and execute the artist first... Art might do something. It's dangerous.

As the progressive Abbé Boulier explained to François Fejtö, when trying to prevent him from writing about the Rajk trial: drawing attention to Communist sins is 'to play the imperialists' game'.11

The Nazis are trying to control what we can read." Madame Marcelle shook her head. "It's much worse than that," she said. "Controlling the newspaper makes sense in an occupied land. Novels and works of literature are art in the same way that songs are art. It's wrong to burn them. It's wrong to ban them.

But to censor it would be tantamount to a kind of doctoring. I would be just as guilty of a normative version of the past as the charans and their ilk. And not to write at all would mean that i, too, believes that truth was a good slogan but not to be confronted in the corridors of real life.

To find out who rules over you, just learn who you are not allowed to criticize

Shut the eff up,' Aaron said. Only he said the REAL swear, the REAL word.

After beating Lorca with their rifle butts and calling him a faggot, they filled him with bullets. The grave, sought by many, has never been found.

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace] "Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.

I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it's madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.

Si le cortas la lengua a un hombre, no demuestras que estuviera mintiendo: demuestras que no quieres que el mundo oiga lo que pueda decir.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.