Quotes About Censorship

I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.

Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity.

You can't censor human nature.

Political correctness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Think about it: If you were publicly branded a racist on an issue of public debate, might you not next time hesitate to speak out, write your elected representatives or go to a meeting? That's a chilling effect - and undermines the First Amendment.

I'm speaking out against social media bias.

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

See, Independence means freedom, for me, more specifically, freedom of speech which we seem to have lost.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.