Censorship Quotes - Page 6

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Pain, Artist, Might

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• Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Rocks, Speech, Free Speech

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Eye, Men

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• If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

  Larry Flynt

  Complaining, Body, Obscene

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• I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Regret, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Internet, Malfunction

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• 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.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, Risk, May

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

  Joe Mantegna

  Believe, Mean, Believe In Me

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• 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.

  Morley Safer

  Pressure, Rubbish, Financial

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• It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Doors, Law

  Samuel Johnson (2012). “Lives of the Poets”, p.119, tredition

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• Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

  Todd Solondz

  Eye, Fate, Pride

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

  Tracey Emin

  Taught, One Thing

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• I don't believe in censorship in any form.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Believe, Form, Don't Believe

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

  Milos Forman

  Men, Thinking, People

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• What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

  Matthew Lesko

  Library, Strange, Opposing

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• Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

  Zoe Saldana

  Children, Balance, Needs

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• Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

  Marc Chandler

  Design, Political, Cisco

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• But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

  Eugenio Montale

  Writing, Exercise, Self

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• 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.

  Penn Jillette

  Mtv, People, Tone

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

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• Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Reality, Illusion, Filmmaker

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• There should be no censorship of mail.

  Barbara Deming

  Mail, Should

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• 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.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Catholic, Literature

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• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Enlightening

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• As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Writing, Government, Long

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