Quotes About Media Censorship

#1. 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.

Oliver Markus

#2. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

Don McCullin

#3. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

William Blum

#4. Everyone has a secret.

Kristine Cuevas

#5. I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

Alan Cumming

#6. Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering.

Steven Redhead

#7. I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

Karen Allen

#8. Everything he wanna have-I got.

Tupac Shakur

#9. The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

James T. Farrell

#10. I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Kathy Acker

#11. I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

W. Eugene Smith

#12. Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

Albert Einstein

#13. Is there any censorship in your country's media? Then you are definitely living in a fascist country! Censorship is the tool of the coward governments. Criminals are always afraid of the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Censorship exists to protect corruption.

Suzy Kassem

#15. The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. So help me God it gets more and more preposterous, it corresponds less and less to what I remember and what I expect as if the force of live were centrifugal and threw one further and further away from one's purest memories and ambitions ...

John Cheever

#17. There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.

M. Russell Ballard

#18. 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

#19. I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Howard Nemerov

#20. The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

Ralph Merkle

#21. Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#22. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

George Orwell

#23. The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Michel De Montaigne

#24. 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.

Sam Sheppard