#censor

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#free-speech #freedom

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#dissent #free-expression #freedom #radical #rebel

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. ↗

— Morley Safer

#control #cover #financial #happened #influence

Censorship is the height of vanity. ↗

— Martha Graham

#height #vanity

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#ends #evil #impossible #measure #results

They can't censor the gleam in my eye. ↗

— Charles Laughton

#eye #gleam

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#different #feminism #force #i #i see

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#books #censorship #destruction #anger