The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote:It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tombthan to write it out in white paint. Because people reco...
(n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire w...
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young l...
Only the nonreader fears books.
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...
We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a publi...
It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by buying his own time on the air— it bein...
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene...
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being off...
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.