Censorship Quotes

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

There should be no censorship of mail.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

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

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.