Quotes About Censorship

Take away the right to say "f**" and you take away the right to say "f** the government."

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

It's the supression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

By 1955 thirteen states had passed laws regulating the publication, distribution, and sale of comic books. Leading intellectuals, including C. Wright Mills, praised Wertham's efforts.70

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

A person can be completely right about something but still not have the right to say it.

Como no la adulaban ni a ella ni a sus niños, no podía creer que fueran de buen natural; y como eran aficionadas a la lectura, las imaginaba satíricas: quizá no sabía exactamente qué era ser satírico, pero eso carecía de importancia. En el lenguaje común implicaba una censura, y la aplicaba sin mayor cuidado.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Deep inside, we all want to blurt out every obnoxious, politically incorrect, unpopular truism we think lurks inside us.

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

The problem with Donald Trump was that he had no filter. There may have not been a single thought he left unexpressed or failed to share with the American public during his first term - at least until Biden's buddies in Big Tech censored and deplatformed him and his supporters.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.