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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.
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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.
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
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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)
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As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you've really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.
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I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.
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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
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They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.
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I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.
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I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
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Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
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Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.
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Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives
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I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.
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There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
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I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.
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To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
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In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
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Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
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Censorship exists to block criticism and protect corruption.
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Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.
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I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
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My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.
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Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of a sentence, and then realize that it will for sure get deleted. Then I won't even write it down.
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Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
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One thing that success has taught me is censorship.
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There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.
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Censorship exists to protect corruption.
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I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
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When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
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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.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
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Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
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( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... )
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
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There cannot be a censor, or a censorship that does not degenerate into absurdity and corruption, there never has been, and there never will be and of all the excuses for it that there could be, that it protects superstition, and religious fanaticism would be the worst.
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The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship.
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Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.
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I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.
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For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
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Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.
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Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like ...
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In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.
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The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
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I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
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The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be ... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
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I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.
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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?
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In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
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These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
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I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.
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I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.
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We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.
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The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
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Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
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There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
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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.
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There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.
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I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.
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Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American war on words. When you forbid a word, you give it power. Self-proclaimed rebels will use words like shit or fuck, simply to shock and sound cool.
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Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.
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Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
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Always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.
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The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.
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I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.
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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
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This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.
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We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,.