Censorship Quotes

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.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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.

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.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

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.

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.

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

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

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.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

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