#censors

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.


Laurence Sterne


#reading #writing #life

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.


William Golding


#crucifixion #religion #religion

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.


John Christopher


#censorship

We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was known to us even before the letter's receipt by your sister. Effective as of September 15 the primary responsibility of our isle's new assistant chief postal inspector has been to scan all post for use of illegal letters of the alphabet, then to make nightly reports to the Council. A report has been put on file on your behalf, your official sentence to be forthwith in issuance.


Mark Dunn


#totalitarianism #censorship

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.


Timothy Murphy


#border #brush #cameras #censors #crossing

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.


Tracey Emin


#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

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

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.


Bruce Coville


#control #dictatorship #information #tyranny #information

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.


Craig Ferguson


#self-censorship #censorship

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.


Alberto Manguel


#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship