Censorship Quotes - Page 23

• London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Moving, Naked, Actors

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• Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Complaining, Needs

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• Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Say Anything, Able, Should

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thoughtful, People, Feminist

  "And our flag was still there" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2001.

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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• So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.

  Gunter Grass

  Risk, Complaining, Development

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• Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

  Greg Lukianoff

  College, Expression, Ideas

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• I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

  Jeff Buckley

  Art, Albums, Warning

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

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• 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.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Rain, Mean, Sunshine

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• When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Challenges

  "Judy Blume: Often Banned, But Widely Beloved". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

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• Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Struggle, Black And White, Identity

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

  Jimmy Wales

  Worry, World

  "Q&A: Jimmy Wales Reflects on a Decade of Wikipedia". Interview with Olivia Solon, www.wired.com. January 11, 2011.

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• It seems now that the place where you see
  the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --
  the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

  Alan Charles Kors

  College, Campus, Obvious

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• Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Religious, Philosophy, Political

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Discovery, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Charles Bradlaugh's speech at Hall of Science (circa 1880), as quoted in Annie Besant "Annie Besant: An Autobiography", 1893.

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• 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.

  Jello Biafra

  Media, Omission, Creative

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• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

  John Updike

  Writing, Sea, Sailing

  Hugging the Shore foreword (1984)

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