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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
Self Censorship quotes by Katherine Paterson
Totalitarian rule thrives on its subjects' ignorance of the extent to which the surveillance system is monitoring their lives. The possibility, rather than the fact, of surveillance is enough to generate fear, anxiety, and informal pressures to conform, to downplay dissenting opinions, to declare one's absolute loyalty. Thus an enforced culture of self-censorship emerges in communities that used to express their political opinions freely. ~ Arun Kundnani
Self Censorship quotes by Arun Kundnani
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 quotes by Milos Forman
It's truly a lifetime of self-censorship that people of colour have to live. The options are: speak your truth and face the reprisals, or bite your tongue and get ahead in life. ~ Reni Eddo-Lodge
Self Censorship quotes by Reni Eddo-Lodge
People don't often say what they think but rather what they think is permissible. ~ Michael Rectenwald
Self Censorship quotes by Michael Rectenwald
The news filled me with such euphoria that for an instant I was numb. My ingrained self-censorship immediately started working: I registered the fact that there was an orgy of weeping going on around me, and that I had to come up with some suitable performance. There seemed nowhere to hide my lack of correct emotion except the shoulder of the woman in front of me, one of the student officials, who was apparently heartbroken. I swiftly buried my head in her shoulder and heaved appropriately. As so often in China, a bit of ritual did the trick. Sniveling heartily she made a movement as though she was going to turn around and embrace me I pressed my whole weight on her from behind to keep her in her place, hoping to give the impression that I was in a state of abandoned grief.

In the days after Mao's death, I did a lot of thinking. I knew he was considered a philosopher, and I tried to think what his 'philosophy' really was. It seemed to me that its central principle was the need or the desire? for perpetual conflict. The core of his thinking seemed to be that human struggles were the motivating force of history and that in order to make history 'class enemies' had to be continuously created en masse. I wondered whether there were any other philosophers whose theories had led to the suffering and death of so many. I thought of the terror and misery to which the Chinese population had been subjected. For what?

But Mao's theory might just be the extension o ~ Jung Chang
Self Censorship quotes by Jung Chang
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices. ~ Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
Self Censorship quotes by Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
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
Self Censorship quotes by Salman Rushdie
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
Self Censorship quotes by Semir Zeki
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
Self Censorship quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Self Censorship quotes by Julian Assange
Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship. ~ Marty Rubin
Self Censorship quotes by Marty Rubin
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important. ~ Ellen Hopkins
Self Censorship quotes by Ellen Hopkins
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. ~ George Orwell
Self Censorship quotes by George Orwell
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak. ~ Howard Zinn
Self Censorship quotes by Howard Zinn
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
Self Censorship quotes by Eugenio Montale
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. ~ Erica Jong
Self Censorship quotes by Erica Jong
Don't bury personal obsessions. Capitalize on them. ``The connection between personal obsession and the work you do is the most important thing.'

-- Be yourself. ``Singularity is what you need.'

-- Avoid self-censorship: ``We are very self-critical in a way that can be very destructive. In our culture there are voices in our head which have taught us to say, `Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you.' Don't ever think about anybody peering over your shoulder.'

-- Don't be afraid to show off, even if you think, ``I'm very close to making a complete fool of myself.'

-- Don't be afraid to entertain. ``I want to entertain. I don't want to lose people. I feel responsible as I write to give people the best time I can.'

-- ``Love your failures' instead of beating yourself up over them.

-- ``Learn to love the process' of writing.

-- Just do it. Barker likes something director Stanley Kubrick said: ``If you want to make a film, pick up a camera. ~ Clive Barker
Self Censorship quotes by Clive Barker
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Letters and myths in poetry and stories renew and help us move forward; some think, there is only one book that is worthwhile; however, when someone really knows someone, they may realize they are studying their myths and book, even if sci-fi or other.
A society or community is really free when you really have a home and can think freely, write freely, and study many aspects without self-censorship. ~ Diana Kanecki
Self Censorship quotes by Diana Kanecki
We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion! ~ David R. Palmer
Self Censorship quotes by David R. Palmer
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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
Self Censorship quotes by Misha Collins
Censorship defeats the right to self determination. ~ Billy Forbes
Self Censorship quotes by Billy Forbes
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. ~ Tim Robbins
Self Censorship quotes by Tim Robbins
Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship. ~ Anonymous
Self Censorship quotes by Anonymous
When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?' ~ Nick Cave
Self Censorship quotes by Nick Cave
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. ~ Julian Assange
Self Censorship quotes by Julian Assange
In the preface to my first collection of essays, Prepared for the Worst, in 1988, I annexed a thought of Nadine Gordimer's, to the effect that a serious person should try and write posthumously. By that I took her to mean that one should compose as if the usual constraints - of fashion, commerce, self-censorship, public and perhaps especially intellectual opinion - did not operate. Impossible perhaps to live up to, this admonition and aspiration did possess some muscle, as well as some warning of how it can decay. Then, about a year ago, I was informed by a doctor that I might have as little as another year to live. In consequence, some of my recent articles were written with the full consciousness that they may be my very last. Sobering in one way and exhilarating in another, this practice can obviously never become perfected. But it has given me a more vivid idea of what makes life worth living, and defending. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Self Censorship quotes by Christopher Hitchens
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ~ Bernardo Bertolucci
Self Censorship quotes by Bernardo Bertolucci
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
Self Censorship quotes by Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does the state's work for it voluntarily. And as every tyrant knows, a people's own self-censorship is the kind that works best. In the 1990s, when revelations of clerical sexual abuse and the Catholic Church's cover-ups put an end to its hegemony almost overnight, my generation scratched its head and asked, in voices trembling with incredulity, 'How could we let them get away with it for so long?' But the question, of course, contained its own answer: We let them get away with it. Power is more often surrendered than seized. ~ John Banville
Self Censorship quotes by John Banville
In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slight degree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employed on the side of the prevailing opinion, really does deter people from professing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who profess them. ~ John Stuart Mill
Self Censorship quotes by John Stuart Mill
There's something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat has to be accomplished without severing the vital connection to the world, and to people, that feeds the imagination. It's a difficult balance. And here is where these ruminations about writing touch on morality. The same constraints to writing well are also constraints to living fully. Not to be a slave to fashion or commerce, not to succumb to arid self-censorship, not to bow to popular opinion - what is all that but a description of the educated, enlightened life? ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Self Censorship quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to. ~ Craig Ferguson
Self Censorship quotes by Craig Ferguson
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. ~ Stefan Molyneux
Self Censorship quotes by Stefan Molyneux
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. ~ Alan Dershowitz
Self Censorship quotes by Alan Dershowitz
When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book. ~ Craig Nelson
Self Censorship quotes by Craig Nelson
Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. ~ Mark Twain
Self Censorship quotes by Mark Twain
It is not pleasant to recall something they must view with regret. They are, therefore, unwilling to direct their thoughts backward to illspent
hours, and those whose vices become obvious if they review the past, even the vices which were disguised under some allurement of momentary pleasure, do not have the courage to revert to those hours. No one willingly turns his thought back to the past, unless all his acts have been submitted to the censorship of his
conscience, which is never deceived; he who has ambitiously coveted, proudly scorned, recklessly conquered, treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered, must needs fear his own memory. ~ Seneca.
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Self Censorship quotes by D.H. Lawrence
I curse when I get really upset. Letting off steam that way makes me feel a little bit better. I've been through a lot, but I have never had the urge to go postal. I thank fuck for that. ~ Oliver Markus
Self Censorship quotes by Oliver Markus
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for. ~ Tom Lehrer
Self Censorship quotes by Tom Lehrer
The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of freedom. In this land the citizens are still invited to write their plays and books, to paint their pictures, to meet for discussion, to dissent as well as to agree, to mount soapboxes in the public square, to enjoy education in all subjects without censorship, to hold court and judge one another, to compose music, to talk politics with their neighbors without wondering whether the secret police are listening, to exchange ideas as well as goods, to kid the government when it needs kidding, and to read real news of real events instead of phony news manufactured by a paid agent of the state. This is a fact and should give every person pause. ~ E.B. White
Self Censorship quotes by E.B. White
This could seem counterintuitive for many dictators running communist or socialist single-party states, but a thriving private tech industry can contribute invaluable tools to help you implement a controllable internet. The reason is fairly simple: the technologies that transform internet applications into more personalized, efficient and enjoyable experiences are usually the same ones that increase the capacity to monitor its users. ~ Laurier Rochon
Self Censorship quotes by Laurier Rochon
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about. ~ G. Willow Wilson
Self Censorship quotes by G. Willow Wilson
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Self Censorship quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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. ~ Paul Goodman
Self Censorship quotes by Paul Goodman
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ~ William Westmoreland
Self Censorship quotes by William Westmoreland
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Self Censorship quotes by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. ~ Richard King
Self Censorship quotes by Richard King
While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely. ~ Bill Hicks
Self Censorship quotes by Bill Hicks
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~ Dick Cavett
Self Censorship quotes by Dick Cavett
There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea. ~ Bong Joon-ho
Self Censorship quotes by Bong Joon-ho
I want all the books on the shelves.
I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does. ~ E.L. Konigsburg
Self Censorship quotes by E.L. Konigsburg
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
Self Censorship quotes by Shirley Temple
A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion. ~ James P. Hogan
Self Censorship quotes by James P. Hogan
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue. ~ Frances McDormand
Self Censorship quotes by Frances McDormand
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Self Censorship quotes by Ambrose Bierce
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. ~ Max Cannon
Self Censorship quotes by Max Cannon
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. ~ Neil Postman
Self Censorship quotes by Neil Postman
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
Self Censorship quotes by Penn Jillette
China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet. ~ John Palfrey
Self Censorship quotes by John Palfrey
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. ~ Bennett Cerf
Self Censorship quotes by Bennett Cerf
Where the truth is censored, the truth grows fangs. ~ Marty Rubin
Self Censorship quotes by Marty Rubin
We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal. ~ Philip Slater
Self Censorship quotes by Philip Slater
We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ~ Jay-Z
Self Censorship quotes by Jay-Z
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. ~ Rod Serling
Self Censorship quotes by Rod Serling
If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction, whether it is positive or negative is irrelevant. Writing that evokes no reaction is a body without a soul. ~ Stewart Stafford
Self Censorship quotes by Stewart Stafford
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. ~ Frank Zappa
Self Censorship quotes by Frank Zappa
As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can't write a coda because I can't speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. ~ G.R. Reader
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