Censorship Quotes - Page 7

• This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Literature, Slavery

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Imagination, Forever

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• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Media, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

  Lee Child

  Government, Common Sense, Target

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• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Logical, Ends

  "Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.

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• By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Hands, Ethos, Speech

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Censorship is the height of vanity.

  Martha Graham

  Vanity, Height

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

  Dick Cavett

  Dirty, Naughty, Mind

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• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  Sam Sheppard

  Believe, Media, Marketing

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• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

  John Mortimer

  Fear, Law, Magic

  John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.251, Penguin UK

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• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

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• A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

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• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Ideas, Rights

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• Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

  George Carlin

  People, Choices, Inability

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• Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Government, Genius, Bears

  Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)

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• the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Media, Public Opinion, Journalism

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• When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R. R. Martin

  Truth, Fear, Liars

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam

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• I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Religion

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  Katherine Moennig

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Two

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• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

  John Stuart Mill

  Evil, Liberty, Would Be

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

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• People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, People, Trying

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Freedom, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Adversity, Pressure, Oppression

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