#censors

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#confused #get #mind #public #public mind

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #censorship

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ↗

— John Gilmour

#censorship #damage #internet #interprets #routes

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #science-fiction #death

The only thing that is obscene is censorship. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#obscene #only #the only thing #thing

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort. ↗

— Don Johnson

#any #censorship #i #i am #opposed

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#censorship #writing #censorship

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#running

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice