Quotes About Censorship

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses.

If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.

Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

And when a woman says "Oh!" like that, it means all the bad words she'd love to say if she only knew them.

It should not be a crime to discuss any idea, however outrageous

For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Laws against free speech are subversive of all law; for men will not long respect laws which they may not criticize.

I don't as a rule hold much of a brief for television. In my experience, all too often it bowdlerises as much as popularises.

To Buckley, she embodied the worst of what in subsequent decades would be called political correctness: the mindless application to every issue of a platitudinous egalitarianism whose practical effect invariably is to expand the reach of totalitarianism.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

Their intention, clearly, was to beat the censors at their own game. If pictures had to be neutered, they'd rather do the castration themselves.