Censorship Quotes - page 2

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. (Ray Bradbury)
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. View quote
John Pilger
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. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Censorship is the height of vanity. View quote
Martha Graham
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. View quote
Miloš Forman
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. View quote
Irving Kristol
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. View quote
Steven Spielberg
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. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers. View quote
Paul Goodman
Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship. (Paul Goodman)
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things. View quote
Wilbur Smith
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. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
We used to think that secrecy was perhaps the greatest enemy of democracy, and as long as there was no suppression or censorship, people could be trusted to make the informed decisions that would preserve our free society, but we have learned in recent years that the techniques of misinformation and misdirection have become so refined that, even in an open society, a cleverly directed flood of misinformation can overwhelm the truth, even though the truth is out there, uncensored, quietly available to anyone who can find it. View quote
Daniel Dennett
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. View quote
Zoe Saldana
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. View quote
Robert Cormier
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. View quote
William Westmoreland
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. View quote
Alan Furst
Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. (Asghar Farhadi)
There should be no censorship of mail. View quote
Barbara Deming
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. View quote
Ben Lindsey
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows. View quote
Daniel Gillies
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. View quote
Joichi Ito