Censorship quotes
27 censorship quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in Actors and Art
“I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.”
- From the movie: Official Secrets
“I have also always believed that censorship when called for should be based on security issues alone not on whether a news report might embarrass a government.”
- From the movie: Cecil B. DeMented
- La trovi in Acting Coaching
“They can't censor the gleam in my eye.”
- From the movie: Hitchcock
“The only worse than a visit to the dentist is a visit to the censor.”
- From the movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
“Do you ever think that if you attack an artist long enough you'll succeed in having him censor himself?”
- From the movie: Vantage Point
“I'm cool with censorship, I know the American people love that.”
- From the movie: The Insider
- Eric Kluster: We're doing this with or without you, Lowell. If you like, I can sign another producer to edit your show.
- Lowell Bergman: Since when has the paragon of investigative journalism allowed lawyers to determine the news content on "60 Minutes"? “I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.”
- From the TV Series: John Adams
“You cannot protect the nation by attacking the right of every man to speak freely without fear.”
- From the movie: Commandos Strike at Dawn
“I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.”
- From the movie: The People vs. Larry Flynt
“- Larry Flynt: That's just the disguise for censorship. This country belongs to me just as much it belongs to you, if you don't like Hustler Magazine, don't read it.
- Simon Leis: I don't but what about our innocent children that gaze upon it in our grocery stores?
- Larry Flynt: If a kid gets caught drinking beer in a tavern, we don't ban...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“The press should be destroyed and the printer hanged for blasphemy.”
- From the movie: Red Corner
“- Shen Yuelin: You come from a country where the infant mortality rate is higher than ours!
- Jack Moore: The reason, you know, is that we don't delete the records!” - From the movie: Better Than Chocolate
- From the movie: To Catch a Thief
“- Frances Stevens: What do you say?
- John Robie: My only comment would be highly censorable.” - From the movie: Hamlet 2
“- Cricket Feldstein: No one is shutting down this play. The Justice Department and the so-called Supreme Court can suck my balls.
- Dana Marschz: Why do they have to do this?
- Cricket Feldstein: My balls?” - From the movie: Wild Wild West
- From the movie: This Land Is Mine
- From the movie: Jarhead
“Censorship. You're telling us what we can and can't say to the press. That's un-American.”
- From the movie: V for Vendetta
“The truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.”
- From the movie: Cecil B. DeMented
“Hey MPAA, how many movies have you censored today?”
- From the movie: Private Parts
- From the movie: Wilde
“There must be censorship or people would say what they meant, and then where should we be?”
- From the movie: Private Parts
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