Censors Quotes

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. - Robert Cormier

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission. - Jello Biafra

Wow! They're sure going to have to do a lot of editing before those Chinese government censors see it. - Mark Moses

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. - Witold Walczak

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. - Gen William C. Westmoreland

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. - Todd Solondz

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. - Ethan Zuckerman

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