Patrick Macnee Quotes

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

One of our greatest glories is closure of offending newspapers. Based on our assessments, by doing this, we have done the greatest service to the people

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

If the American President had control of the media, his job would be much easier.

I see the FCC responding to an already repressive society and raw censorship is the result.

In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.

Censorship is being abused as a cloak to cover all political, naval and military mistakes..

When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.

The only thing worse than watching an Alex Jones video is the government trying to tell Google not to do it - to prevent people form watching the Alex Jones video. We can't even do it if we tried.

Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.

Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a... secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.