#censor

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#condition #first #progress #removal

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#mass #medium #uncensored

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#censorship #chamberlain #had #i #idiotic

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#censorship #cervantes #don quixote #good #had

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

When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves. ↗

— Nick Cohen

#free-speech #age

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#anger

The censor pretends he is protecting tender hearts, shielding children from sex and violence, keeping the righteous in the right path, guarding against temptation, preserving virtue. How? by burning books, tearing out tongues, stretching necks, stoning women; through torture and imprisonment; by threats of violence against the victim’s friends and family; by force-feeding his own people a philosophy not only false and wicked now but false and wicked the day it was first announced by some imaginary lord and used to purchase or preserve his privileges and hoodwink the world. ↗

— William H. Gass

#family