Censorship 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

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

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

When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard. - Franco Fabbri

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. - Judy Blume