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“Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.”

Should Able Refuse Censorship Say Anything

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.”

Writing Art Fiction Novel Conditions Century Great Things Censorship Strict 19th Century Art Of Writing Great Author

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.”

States Lying Easy Church Authority Roots Presses Worried Officials Censorship Printing Copyright Printing Press Scribes

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“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.”

Children Art Beautiful Actors Born Poverty Technology Audience Struggle Alive Stage Oppression Censorship Moralist Actors And Audience

Book:The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

Source: The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

“I don't believe in censorship.”

Believe Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Kristen Stewart

“It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.”

Ifs Ideas Impossible Communication Available Tyranny Censorship Free Speech Carpe Diem Marketplace Presentation Carpe Forums

Author:Thomas E. Mann

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

Giving Government Opinion Characteristics Censorship Credibility

Author:Voltaire

“We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.”

Given Powerful Produce Creatures Aim Constant Despite Manage Censorship Ridicule Resilient

Author:Seth

“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.”

Certain Serious Speech Loud Officials Censorship Speakers

Author:Paul Goodman

“A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.”

Writing Faces Certain Sparks Censorship Forbidden

Book:Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici

Source: Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici

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

Clear Let Me Censorship Advocating

Author:Mike Rogers

“Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.”

Self Social Fear Interest Built Propaganda Censorship Cowardice Self Interest Concealed Blasphemy Indolence

Author:John Osborne

“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.”

Ifs Should Writing Today Should Have Philosophical Presses Rome Censorship

Author:Voltaire

“There's no human censorship at kiosks.”

Humans Censorship

Author:Steve Forbes

“Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.”

People Knows Whole Form Young Break Know How Five Rocks Twenties Brilliant Ruins Do You Know Censorship Rock N Roll Old People Rebellious Twenty Five

Author:John Hughes

“Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.”

People Giving Mean Poor Quality Worry Stupid Communication Handle Censorship Disturbed Inventing Broadcasting Poor Quality

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.”

People Ideas Able Views Ought Consistent Censorship Free Society

Author:Jerry Springer

“In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.”

World Would Be Perfect Judgement Censorship A Perfect World

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.”

People Thinking Art Censorship

Author:Alanis Morissette

“In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.”

People Thinking World Art Shows Would Be Able Perfect Television Aspect Judgement Censorship Hypocritical A Perfect World

Author:Alanis Morissette

“It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.”

Real Past Social Taste Happenings Tragedy Comment Censorship Blast Bad Taste Something Real

Author:Margaret Cho

“We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.”

Needs Silence Presses Censorship

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.”

“Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.”

People Ifs Want Littles Facts Pieces Havens Decades Tendencies Manipulation Censorship Altered Indoctrination Initiate Excursions Kgb

Author:Frank Zappa

“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.”

People Thinking Mean Care Opportunity Causes Position Weak Reform Celebration Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”

Thinking May Ends Aim Institutions Censorship Freedom Of Speech Freedom Of Thought

Book:Professor At The Breakfast Table

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“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.”

Ifs Want Looks Children Materials Hair Protect Block Censorship Pornography

Author:Judith Krug

“There's more than one way to be a girl”

“Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.”

People Ifs Art Would Be Accepted Lazy Appropriate Museums Censorship Gallery Exhibitions Censored Excursions

Author:Adamo Macri

“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."”

Ifs States Happens Able United United States Imagine News Folks Reports Censorship Dictator Documentaries Intimidating Imposing Satirical

Author:Barack Obama

“Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.”

Matter Hard Honest Exercise Normal Paper News Thirds England Presses Newspapers France Pounds Republic Cash Censorship Cheese Papers Advertisements Indirect Advertisers

Book:Orwell's England

Source: Orwell's England

“Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.”

Way Kind Online Censorship

Author:Cliff Martinez

“One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.”

Book Country Matter Threat Censorship Publishing Book Publishing

Author:Bennett Cerf

“There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.”

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”

“Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.”

Doe Dark Rooms Rights Censorship Interfere Constitutional Rights Dark Room

Author:Pat Paulsen

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

Has Beens Poetry Literature Black Lines Our Lives Color Racism Censorship

Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

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

Book Hard Trouble Objects Censorship

Author:Studs Terkel

“Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.”

Political Social Amount Censorship Spit Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Jeff Cooper

“I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.”

Should Believe Children Able Strong I Believe Views Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.”

Should Home Media Television Internet Video Magazines Enjoyment Appropriate Guests Censorship Unlawful

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.”

Energy Deals Painting Lifts Censorship Veils Repression Unleashed

Author:Michele Cassou

“Don't join the book burners!”

Book Library Censorship Books And Reading Library Books Concealing Libraries And Librarians Censored Censoring Banned Books Censorship In Books Libraries Books And Reading Libraries And Reading Book Banning Intellectual Freedom Book Burning Censoring Books Freedom To Read

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.”

Ifs Writing Wanted Speak Written Censorship Publishers Manuscripts

Author:Stefan Heym

“Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Self Sometimes Remember Fantasy Agree Yeah Silent Convince Censorship First Person Silent Movies Self Censorship

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”

Knows Men May Book Chance Spring Teeth Burning Productive Dragons Censorship Fabulous Up And Down Lively Potency Censoring Censorship In Books

Book:The Portable Milton

Source: The Portable Milton

“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.”

Knows Two Girl Father Waiting Know How Fronts Naked Curse Censorship Screwed Up Make Out

Author:Artie Lange

“Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.”

People Ifs Shows Term Responsibility Moral Creative Hollywood Arguing Smoking Censorship Threatening Creative People Moral Responsibility

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“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?”

Want Should May Taste Exposed Censorship Want Me Enlightening You Want Me Do You Want Me

Book:Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

Source: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

“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.”

Two Political Hate Common Groups Speech Democrat Two Things Opposition Despise Censorship Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Rush Limbaugh

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