#censorship

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#censoring #reading #censorship

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? ↗

— Juvenal

#censorship

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#am #any #been #censorship #i

There should be no censorship of mail. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#mail #should

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#boy #censorship #get #seldom #upset

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #censorship

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ↗

— John Gilmour

#censorship #damage #internet #interprets #routes

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. ↗

— Julian Assange

#form #leaks #new #new form #stopping

The only thing that is obscene is censorship. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#obscene #only #the only thing #thing