John Milton Quotes

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

The danger of unbounded liberty [of printing], and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of Government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve.

To dismiss censorship as crude repression by ignorant bureaucrats is to get it wrong. Although it varied enormously, it usually was a complex process that required talent and training and that extended deep into the social order.

The CBFC is only mirroring society.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

No one can quarrel with those who desire to maintain the theatre on a proper moral plane, but we are seeing too much in the world today of an effort to regulate too minutely by law the lives and morals of whole groups of people.

Liberty is a product of order.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.