Censorship Quotes

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

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.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

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.

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

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

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

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.

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

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

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

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.