Thom Yorke Quotes

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

When censorship is intelligent, it will stop a film before it is made. If not, it is too late.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.