Censorship

My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can't talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.

- Betty Dodson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.

- Mae West Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.

- Clive Barker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

- Todd Solondz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

- Robertson Davies Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work.

- John West Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

- Robert Towne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

- Craig Bruce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

- Joichi Ito Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Censor A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

- Bennett Cerf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Censorship is imposing on others to live as one wishes to live.

- Anthony Mizzi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

- Kate Adie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To say ''I accept'' in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did

- John Hughes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Lee Child Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Censorship and thought-control are apparently alive and well at the University of Idaho. This is an assault on academic freedom, and a barefaced violation of the Constitution's guarantee of free speech.

- John West Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science.

- Cindy Cohn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.

- David Mamet Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

- Tracey Emin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

- Kathy Acker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The idea that immigration law is being used as a tool of censorship is unacceptable. By regulating speech at our borders, we are sending the wrong message to the world. We must not have a double standard regarding the freedom of speech and dissent. That is one of the strengths of our democracy.

- Caroline Fredrickson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

- Eugenio Montale Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

- James Robinson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Researchers did not propose any restrictions or censorship, saying, We do not suggest that we want to dictate the message. ... We are suggesting they need to be tied to the consequences that are realistic, given our experiences in American life.

- Barry McCaffrey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This country and our Constitution guarantee freedom of speech and association. Censorship at our borders is directly contrary to fundamental American values. Attempts to suppress freedom of speech and association are beneath our country - not to mention a waste of government resources intended to keep Americans safe.

- Caroline Fredrickson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes