#censors

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#manifesto #censorship

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#censorship

Only the nonreader fears books. ↗

— Richard Peck

#censorship #reading #censorship

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#controlled #corporate #creative #down #here

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ↗

— Mae West

#censorship #fortune #i #i believe #i believe in

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

— William Westmoreland

#confused #get #mind #public #public mind

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

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god