Censorship Quotes - Page 6

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

I don't believe in censorship.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

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

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one and started hearing from teens. I just got an email from a reader who said that "Thirteen Reasons Why" was the first time they had felt understood. A book shouldn't be anybody's first time feeling understood and that's where censorship bothers me. These books need to be out there.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

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.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity.

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

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

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

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.

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

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.