Quotes on Censorship

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Author: Kathy Acker

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Author: Kathy Acker

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Author: Kathy Acker

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Author: Julian Assange

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

Author: John Barlow

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

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.

Author: Harry Blackmun

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

Author: Craig Bruce

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

Author: Dick Cavett

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Author: Robert Cormier

There should be no censorship of mail.

Author: Barbara Deming

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Author: E. Forster

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Author: John Gilmore

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Author: John Gilmour

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Author: Martha Graham

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.

Author: Uta Hagen

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.

Author: Guillermo Infante

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Author: Don Johnson

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

Author: Matthew Lesko

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Author: Ben Lindsey

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

Author: Joe Mantegna

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Author: John Pilger

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

Author: Mike Rogers

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.

Author: Sam Sheppard

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Author: Tommy Smothers

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.

Author: Todd Solondz

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Author: Steven Spielberg

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Author: Mae West

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

Author: Mae West

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Author: William Westmoreland