Censorship Quotes - Page 12

• ... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Dirty, Hands

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Book, Long

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• The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Ideas, Censorship In Books

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Reading

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• We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

  Woody Allen

  Film, Lit, Pornography

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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• People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Kind, Participation

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• I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Tasks, Lifetime, Graves

  "The Struggle Intensifies". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (May 16, 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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• Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

  Emma Stone

  Hate, People, Angry

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Advertising

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mike Rogers

  Advocating, Let Me, Clear

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• The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

  Dessa Darling

  Artist, Views, Support

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• Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cutting, Feet, Internet

  Letter to N. G. Dufief, 19 Apr. 1814

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• Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of a sentence, and then realize that it will for sure get deleted. Then I won't even write it down.

  Murong Xuecun

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

  Phil Robertson

  Freedom, Party, Rights

  "Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, 'a true giant of history', dies aged 91" by Kevin Rawlinson, Kirsten Han, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2015.

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Book, Kids, Responsibility

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Iran, Artistic, Difficult

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Dictator, Imposing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

  Gene Wolfe

  Beautiful, Art, Children

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction”

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• I don't believe in censorship.

  Kristen Stewart

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

  Voltaire

  Government, Giving, Opinion

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• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Speech, Serious, Loud

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

  Voltaire

  Philosophical, Writing, Rome

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• There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Survival, President, Needs

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Order, Law

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