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.

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

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

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

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.

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.

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

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

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

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

People learn to love their chains.

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

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!

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Give me your love and not your like!

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

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

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

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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

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

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

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build.

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

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