The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
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.
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel and I think people respect that because you're honest.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake when your mind is just drifting you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
After he was assassinated his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
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 like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.
Thanks to television for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
When you're in love you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
As I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
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.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always young readers will be the real losers.
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
When I was very little we would get letters from China in Chinese and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
When you have strict censorship of the internet young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
You can't censor people's dreams.
I might be writing what people expect me to write writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that I started working with my dreams because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
Again like I said we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you or try to stop you but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.
The thing about stand-up was I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing and it was really cool.