Quotes with censorship

  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Sean O'Casey Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Mae West Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • E. M. Forster We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • David Mamet We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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