Quotes About Censorship

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type - and this sounds very pretentious - of apartheid.

The other alternative in the nonresistance pattern is to reduce contact with the enemy to a minimum. It is the attitude of cultural isolation in the midst of a rejected culture. Cunning the mood may be—one of bitterness and hatred, but also one of deep, calculating fear. To take up active resistance would be foolhardy, for a thousand reasons. The only way out is to keep one's resentment under rigid control and censorship.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

An artist who is 'anti-censorship' is essentially waving a white flag; declaring their work to be inconsequential; a smudge; a scribble, a doddle, or a polka dot.

The shit hit the fan in '92 because that was an election year—"Cop Killer" was a ready-made target for the president, the vice president, and the NRA.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

You can now say the word shit on television." "Even broadcast television?" "There is no more broadcast television, Boss." I thought about the TV set back at my cabin that I hadn't turned on in a long while. "I wondered why mine had stopped working.

I guess she was being politically correct . . . or a weenie. Maybe that's the same thing.

The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.

We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.

I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

In most cases, the only genuine victims of the 'safe places' demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds . Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.