Censorship Quotes - Page 16

• When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, House, Freedom Of Speech

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.269, Faber & Faber

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• The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Typewriters, Mind, Kind

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• The paper burns, but the words fly away.

  Rabbi Akiva

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

  Federico Fellini

  Moral, Judgment, Politician

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• One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Art, Should, Repression

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.244, Columbia University Press

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• No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Survived

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

  Howard Stern

  Believe, Benefits, I Believe

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  1840 Letter to John Sterling, collected in New Letters of Carlyle (1904), vol.1.

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• I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Boys, Mind

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• As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Philosophical, Reading, Book

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• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Book, Organization, People

  Speech to his staff before the broadcast of the "See It Now" program on Joe McCarthy on March 09, 1954. "Edward R. Murrow And the Time Of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.silurians.org.

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

  Chuck Jones

  Communication, Believe, Self

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• When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

  Jacques Prevert

  Real, Police, Today

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• To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

  Jerome Frank

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank".

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• If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

  Peter Shilton

  Soccer, Way, Backwards

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• I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.

  Richard Posner

  Sacrifice, Government, Liberty

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Land, Racism

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

  Frances McDormand

  Marijuana, Rights, Issues

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• [Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough to defend it with reasons and refute the objections. Some people even go so far as to consider prohibited or confiscated books to be the best ones of all, for the prohibition indicates that their authors wrote what they really thought rather than what they were supposed to think . . .

  Laszlo Radvanyi

  Book, Thinking, People

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• Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

  Daniel Gillies

  Moving, Artist, Liberty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mean, Cutting, Keys

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