Censorship is the height of vanity.
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
You have to be careful as a news organization that you don’t fall into voluntary censorship, that you worry about offending your ‘league partner.’ I never worried about that. I worry about fans listening.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
I am against censorship. I don’t think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
I’m a free speech bigot. I don’t like censorship; I just don’t think it’s a good thing.
We can’t let censorship take over.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it’s not censorship.
I think censorship in the name of fighting fake news is a dangerous thing for Pakistan.
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.
If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere – to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won’t ever come back to books.
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.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn’t like what people were doing.
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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 books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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.
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
When I started to write, it was the ’70s, and throughout that decade, we didn’t have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film’s theatrical run.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters’ demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.
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’d been to South Africa during the Seventies, when it was definitely not kosher to go there. I felt that the best thing to do was to be a missionary and tell people what was going on in their own country because censorship was so dreadful.
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.
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you’re just unable to focus.
Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.
The fact that we don’t have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration. We stand with all the free peoples of the world and hope you stand with us in our quest for justice and freedom.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
The media’s censorship is unthinkable… If we don’t stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.
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.
Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don’t think anyone in India would tone down violence, keeping in mind the censorship.
Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.
Yes, I would not like to see censorship on OTT content but there are some people who really take advantage of this.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Censorship is a touchy subject, all the way around.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate’s political speech is more speech – not government censorship.
There should be no censorship of mail.
Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world’s most elaborate system of censorship.
I’m not for censorship without reason.
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.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
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.
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
The media’s censorship is unthinkable… If we don’t stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love?
Wherever information gathers and flows, two predators follow closely behind it: censorship and surveillance. The case of digital money is no exception. Where money becomes a series of signals, it can be censored; where money becomes information, it will inform on you.
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
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.
