#censors

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#free-speech #progress #challenge

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn't let them read. ↗

— -Josh Westbrook

#censorship

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#forbidden #knowledge #nightshade #censorship

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#literacy #censorship

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#censorship #censorship

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#comedy #self-censorship #tv #censorship

...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values... ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#censorship

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#public-opinion #censorship

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them.... ↗

— Giuseppe Borgese

#fascism #italy #mussolini #censorship