Quotes About Censorship

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put a stop to it. We might even close down your paper, because these things can only lead to a lot of riots and bloodshed.

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

The financial cost20 was around £47 million, an appalling sum for those days. The cost in idealism, energy, and enthusiasm was probably higher. Bitterness, cynicism, disillusionment, emigration, censorship, clericalism and stagnation became the hallmarks of Irish society

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.

Moreover, liberals asserted, the church maintained unsanitary practices, such as interring the remains of pious elites in the walls and beneath the floors of cathedrals, and it was unalterably opposed to science, progress, and liberal political ideas, making free use of censorship and spiritual intimidation to uphold its dogmas

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

Some of the material in 'Peep Show' I wouldn't sit down and watch with even my parents, who are not easily offended.

The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone - almost always a liberal - has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'