Censorship Quotes - Page 5

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

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.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

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.

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

There's no human censorship at kiosks.

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

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

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

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