Censorship Quotes

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.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

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

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

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

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

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

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

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.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.