Censorship Quotes - Page 13

• Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

  Frank Zappa

  Kgb, People, Want

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Advertising

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

  James G. Watt

  Christian, Religious, Speech

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• If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, Hate

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• Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Reading

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• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Speech, Serious, Loud

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Ideas, Censorship In Books

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Book, Long

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• ... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Self, Tears

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Book, Kids, Responsibility

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• ... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Dirty, Hands

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Pride, Thinking

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Silence, Needs, Presses

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• Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Intelligent, Past, Games

  J. M. Coetzee (1997). “Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Past, Tragedy

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wall, Tools, Calling

  "Why the Internet is a great tool for totalitarians" by Evgeny Morozov, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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• Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

  Adamo Macri

  Art, Museums, People

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• Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.

  Pat Paulsen

  Dark, Rights, Doe

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• I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

  Henry Rollins

  Firsts, First Amendment, Amendments

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• [Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet, the whole concept of cyberspace, vulnerable to rampant censorship - he pushed that bill, and I know the man in the Justice Department whom he persuaded - the guy didn't want to lose his job - to write the bill.

  Nat Hentoff

  Jobs, Communication, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

  Katey Sagal

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

  Michele Cassou

  Energy, Veils, Painting

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• It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Bullying, Hate, Expression

  "Rushdie and After" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

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• There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Home, Media, Video

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