Censorship In Ww1 Quotes

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship. ~ Penn Jillette

Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. ~ Marty Rubin

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. ~ Kenneth Tynan

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. ~ Erica Jong

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship. ~ Nelson Algren

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately. ~ Julian Assange

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ~ William Westmoreland

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) ~ Margaret Bald

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. ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship. ~ Michael Anti

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship. ~ Aryeh Neier

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship. ~ Victor Andres Triay

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ~ Bernardo Bertolucci

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film. ~ Anurag Kashyap

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear. ~ Julian Assange

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Not my strong suit ... I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one. ~ Misha Collins

Is there any censorship in your country's media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of the coward governments. Criminals are always afraid of the truths! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. ~ Nadine Gordimer

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

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. ~ Tatyana Tolstaya

Censorship exists to protect corruption. ~ Suzy Kassem

The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship. ~ Stewart Stafford

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? ~ Storm Jameson

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing. ~ Penn Jillette

Censorship thrives in silence; silence is its aim. ~ James LaRue

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship. ~ Joe Mantegna

In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. ~ Rod Serling

Political correctness is modern day censorship. This still doesn't justify you in being a douchebag. ~ Kevin Focke

Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online. ~ Cliff Martinez

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with. ~ M. Shadows

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. ~ Henry Rollins

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. ~ John Palfrey

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. ~ Max Cannon

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. ~ Bahman Ghobadi

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. ~ Milos Forman

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. ~ Semir Zeki

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet. ~ John Palfrey

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ~ Mae West

Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. ~ Alan Dershowitz

Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books
with one hand. ~ Robin Morgan

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ~ Eugenio Montale

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

People don't often say what they think but rather what they think is permissible. ~ Michael Rectenwald

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. ~ Andrea Cremer

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. ~ Robert Bourassa

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is. ~ Dan Gillmor

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. ~ Ethan Zuckerman

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

I don't believe in censorship. ~ Kristen Stewart

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. ~ Julian Assange

I don't believe in censorship in any form. ~ Kathryn Bigelow

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~ Tommy Smothers

You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. ~ Mark Twain

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called 'censorship.' If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose whether to buy apples instead of oranges, vacations rather than violins, furniture rather than mutual funds. But of course no such consistency is intended. This strained use of the word 'censorship' appears only selectively, to describe public choices and values at variance with the choices and values of the anointed. ~ Thomas Sowell

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. ~ Richard King

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Censorship defeats the right to self determination. ~ Billy Forbes

The only thing that is obscene is censorship. ~ Craig Bruce

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

Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like ... ~ Kathleen Hanna

There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest. ~ G.R. Reader

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ~ John Mortimer

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. ~ Sam Sheppard

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea. ~ Bong Joon-ho

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship. ~ Shirley Temple

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

Censorship is the height of vanity. ~ Martha Graham

I hate censorship, man. I really do. ~ Jane Levy

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

Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone. ~ Katherine Paterson

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry. ~ Witold Walczak

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. ~ Stefan Molyneux

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. ~ Milos Forman

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~ George Bernard Shaw

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

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. ~ John Milton

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ~ John Perry Barlow

Censorship is the mother of metaphor. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ~ Jay-Z

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine. ~ John Palfrey

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,. ~ Gerald Nicosia

You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly.
'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud.
'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen.
I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth. ~ Siri Hustvedt

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. ~ Ray Bradbury

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might. ~ Amy Tan

Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn't exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ~ Joseph Henry Jackson

The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel. ~ Isaac Deutscher

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. ~ Kathy Acker

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. ~ Bahman Ghobadi

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak. ~ Salman Rushdie