Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

The surest way to make our youth suspect that there may be something in Communism would be for the government to outlaw it.

Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany... you will never hear somebody say, 'The Stasi never bothered me because I didn't have anything to hide.' That's not a thing that people say.

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

I want Victoria to be the number one state in the best country in the world.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

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.

The Russian spirit, wedded as it is to the idea of uniformity, cannot achieve genuine order. The nature of its government is interference, negligence and corruption.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

The one reason we know that every totalitarian government must fail is that no totalitarian government is prepared to face the consequence of free universities.

It is a crime now in my country to talk about the government's crimes.

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder “censorship,” we call it “concern for commercial viability.”