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.
Henry Steele Commager
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.
John Mortimer
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
The Chinese censorship system has been in practice for many years. I don`t think there will be much change in society in the short run. This situation has been present for a long time and it is a reality in China. I work and live in this system. There has...
Yimou Zhang
In response to a new 2006 PBS censorship policy requiring additional visual pixelization for the deaf of recognizable lip movements of sworn words: "All I can say is I`ve been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out r...
Marlee Matlin
People should be allowed to marry and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage. I think the rest is censorship and conflict...
Pierce Brosnan
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
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.
Morley Safer
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
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
We fear this `obstruction of justice` procedure is a judicial device for the government to yet again settle some scores with the privately-owned media and at the same time subject them to state censorship.
Ann Darrin
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.
Uta Hagen
The program proclaimed a return to freedom of the press and proposed the adoption of a press law that would clearly exclude prepublication censorship.
Aimee Ehlenfeldt
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
Censorship reflects a society`s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart
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