Pastoral Resources

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

There should be no censorship of mail.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

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.

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.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.