#censor

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗

— Joseph Henry Jackson

#censorship #reading #censorship

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#censorship

The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#culture-wars #political-correctness #procrustes #censorship

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship. ↗

— Michael Anti

#china #weibo #censorship

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#censorship #confused #ever #first #fought

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#am #any #been #censorship #i

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#censorship #discussion #education #full #internet

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#always #bad #bad ideas #better #censor

You can't censor people's dreams. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#dreams #people #you