#censorship

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#audience #because #censorship #denying #event

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

— Heywood Broun

#censorship #writing #censorship

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. ↗

— Max Cannon

#censorship #going #people #promote #something

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

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

We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ↗

— Jay-Z

#change

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#dissent #free-expression #freedom #radical #rebel

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. ↗

— Morley Safer

#control #cover #financial #happened #influence

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

— -Josh Westbrook

#censorship