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I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It’s just fear being projected onto art. (Censorship Quotes)
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. (Censorship Quotes)
Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don’t believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you. (Censorship Quotes)
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor’s grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) (Censorship Quotes)
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) (Censorship Quotes)
I don’t for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them. (Censorship Quotes)
The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That’s the nature of the system. I don’t challenge that system on its face. It’s their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I’ll participate or I won’t. (Censorship Quotes)
If you’re going to have a book published in China, that means that you’re going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don’t get onto bookstore shelves. (Censorship Quotes)
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. (Censorship Quotes)
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to. (Censorship Quotes)
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn’t like what people were doing. (Censorship Quotes)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there (Censorship Quotes)
Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world’s most elaborate system of censorship. (Censorship Quotes)
And that’s the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them. (Censorship Quotes)
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. (Censorship Quotes)
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. (Censorship Quotes)
There’s a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls. (Censorship Quotes)
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. (Censorship Quotes)
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? (Censorship Quotes)
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. (Censorship Quotes)
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. (Censorship Quotes)
I’m very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. (Censorship Quotes)
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don’t stand a chance. (Censorship Quotes)
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they’re doing and saying in films right now just shouldn’t be allowed. There’s no dignity anymore and I think that’s very important. (Censorship Quotes)
The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed. (Censorship Quotes)
Whenever it’s suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it’s rubbish. That’s never happened. (Censorship Quotes)
I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. (Censorship Quotes)
I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don’t believe in forbidden knowledge. (Censorship Quotes)
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain. (Censorship Quotes)
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. (Censorship Quotes)