#censorship

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity. ↗

— Lee Child

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

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I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. ↗

— Judy Blume

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Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong. ↗

— Richard King

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fallibility #humor #sin #humor

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#censorship #illiteracy #reading #read

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

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