Censorship Quotes
Censorship Quote of the day
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
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.
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
