Censorship Quotes - page 6

Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don't let them silence us. (Donald Trump Jr.)
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. View quote
Terry Tempest Williams
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. View quote
Uta Hagen
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. View quote
William Westmoreland
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around. View quote
Bahman Ghobadi
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat. View quote
Cristina Saralegui
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. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. View quote
Fred Wilson
I hate censorship, man. I really do. View quote
Jane Levy
I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship. View quote
Joe Mantegna
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. (Kate Adie)
The only thing that is obscene is censorship. View quote
Craig Bruce
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. View quote
Felice Picano
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. View quote
John Gilmour
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. View quote
Max Cannon
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. View quote
Robert Bourassa
In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations. View quote
Yang Lan
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. View quote
Harry Blackmun
It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age. View quote
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. View quote
Potter Stewart
It is impossible to concede that, by the words "freedom of the press," the framers of the amendment intended to adopt merely the narrow view then reflected by the law of England that such freedom consisted only in immunity from previous censorship, for this abuse had then permanently disappeared from English practice. It is equally impossible to believe that it was not intended to bring within the reach of these words such modes of restraint as were embodied in the two forms of taxation already described. (George Sutherland)
Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. View quote
Ai Weiwei
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Thanks to the Internet, words can travel at the speed of light, and no amount of censorship can stop the flow of information. ... Thanks to Malala's courage, no militant can silence her. Thanks to the Internet, the pen is mightier than the sword. View quote
Newton Lee
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. View quote
Jimmy Wales