Censorship Quotes - Page 17

• The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Language, Consciousness

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• It seems to me that 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

  Kids, Responsibility, Parent

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

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• [Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Symbolism

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• There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Government, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

  Alice Mattison

  Smart, Writing, Belief

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

  Anatole France

  God, Pseudonyms, Literature

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• I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Thinking, America

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.

  Artie Lange

  Girl, Father, Two

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• Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

  Peter McWilliams

  May, Want, Taste

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political correctness. Speech censorship. They hate opposition and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Two, Political

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• Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "'When Google Met WikiLeaks': An Exclusive Excerpt". Interview with Scott Malcomson, www.truthdig.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.

  Judith Krug

  Children, Block, Hair

  "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.

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• The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

  Studs Terkel

  Book, Trouble, Objects

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• As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, People, Want

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Iraq, America

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.

  Edward Albee

  School, Play, Numbers

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia, I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy... and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Dad, Stupid

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Choices, Silence, Silence Is

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!

  Ray Bradbury

  Dog, Book, Cat

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• I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Political, Important

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• The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

  William Blum

  Media, Woven, Fabric

  William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books

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• On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

  Richey Edwards

  Party, Believe, Mean

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• As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

  Guy Adams

  Jobs, Powerful, People

  Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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