#censors

All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want. ↗

— Mark Coker

#indie-writing #freedom

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

— William Golding

#crucifixion #religion #religion

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

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

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censorship #encountered #exactly #get #just

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#books #burn #censorship #doing #like

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#been #censorship #could #even #general

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#began #censors #developments #game #involved

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another. ↗

— Amy Heckerling

#arbitrary #censors #completely #destroyed #fair

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #censorship #collapse #conclusion #even