Quotes On Self Censorship

#1. I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Peggy Noonan

#2. At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.

Craig Ferguson

#3. When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Nick Cave

#4. You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#5. 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.

Tim Robbins

#6. Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

#7. SeLF censorsHIP?
Not my strong suit ... I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.

Misha Collins

#8. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship.

Marty Rubin

#10. Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Billy Forbes

#11. Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

John Osborne

#12. But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

Eugenio Montale

#13. A phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

Robin Morgan

#14. Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Ai Weiwei

#15. Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Chuck Jones

#16. 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.

Julian Assange

#17. We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

David R. Palmer

#18. It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Neil Gaiman

#19. I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

Julian Assange

#20. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Semir Zeki

#21. Schools - play the race card incessantly against their fellow students and their professors, leading to an atmosphere of nervous self-censorship.

Anonymous

#22. Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.

May Sarton

#23. The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

Milos Forman

#24. I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Craig Ferguson

#25. But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.

Phil Robertson

#26. 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

#27. Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Susan Sontag

#28. 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.

Carol Bly

#29. It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

Stefan Molyneux

#30. A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Erica Jong