Suppression of Expression Quotes

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

When the arts become a political football, they lose.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

I was punished for communicating.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.