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As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
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.
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
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.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
We've been dealing with censorship around multimedia, about multinational companies and the content they create, for a very long time.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
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 always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
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.
Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what they believe in.
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
In most cases, the only genuine victims of the 'safe places' demands for censorship are conservative student groups and their invited guest speakers.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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.
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.
They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
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.'
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.
I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
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.
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
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 will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.