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#censor

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The censor pretends he is protecting tender hearts, shielding children from sex and violence, keeping the righteous in the right path, guarding against temptation, preserving virtue. How? by burning books, tearing out tongues, stretching necks, stoning women; through torture and imprisonment; by threats of violence against the victim’s friends and family; by force-feeding his own people a philosophy not only false and wicked now but false and wicked the day it was first announced by some imaginary lord and used to purchase or preserve his privileges and hoodwink the world.


William H. Gass


#family

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.


Robert A. Heinlein


#freedom #news #freedom

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.


Salman Rushdie


#freedom #freedom

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.


Philip Pullman


#evil #first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #hubris

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

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.


Laurence Sterne


#reading #writing #life

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.


Lynne Sharon Schwartz


#life #reading #life

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

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.


John Christopher


#censorship






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