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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.
I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Once the censorship board clears a film, there should not be any other obstacle for a film's theatrical run.
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.
Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
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.
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
I haven't watched any shows online but I know that the content is not crippled by censorship and is much more experimental.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.