#censors

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#lyrics #vulgarity #censorship

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#always #been #censorship #forefront #libraries

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#believe #called #censorship #get #i

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#censorship #fine #fine line #good #good taste

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#am #censorship #clear #i #i am

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors. ↗

— Karen Morley

#barely #censors #got #gowns #i

I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens? ↗

— Antony Sher

#anger

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. ↗

— Neil Postman

#independent-thought #technology-addiction #thinking #age

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#comedy #religion #sex #tv #religion