Quotes and Sayings about Censorship

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

Ai Weiwei

Internet

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 4 Episode 21

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Julian Assange

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

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Clash of Kings

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 4 Episode 21

Human Rights Freedom

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Jay-Z

Cencorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't cheew it

Mark Twain

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This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

Freedom

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!

William Wallace in Braveheart

Freedom War Speeches

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2

Freedom

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden in Fight Club

Freedom

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Happiness Freedom

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Freedom Hearing & Listening

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

John Keating in Dead Poets Society

Dreaming Freedom

Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

Freedom Birds

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Joanne K. Rowling

Writing

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing Depression

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Sentences

I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek

Life Time Moments

Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 5 Episode 25

The past is written, but we are left to write the future.

Jean-Luc Picard in Picard - Season 1

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Feast for Crows

Winter

All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Feast for Crows

Knights

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Ai Weiwei - Oktober 2009

Freedom of Speech

Give me your love and not your like!

Internet Social Media

Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 Episode 25

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Julian Assange

Bitcoin

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Tim Robbins

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons

Imagination Reading

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Education

Mentally been many places but I'm Brooklyn's own.

Jay-Z - Where I’m From, Album: In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

Brooklyn

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Mark Twain

Kissing Hands

Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build.

George R. R. Martin in Tales of Dunk and Egg - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long and prosper.

Mister Spock in Star Trek - II: The Wrath of Khan

No one can know the future. One can only follow one's instincts.

Mister Spock in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 1

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