#censor

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

— Juvenal

#censorship

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗

— Joseph Henry Jackson

#censorship #reading #censorship

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#censorship

The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#culture-wars #political-correctness #procrustes #censorship

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship. ↗

— Michael Anti

#china #weibo #censorship

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

I don't believe in censorship in any form. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#believe #censorship #form #i

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american people #both #censor #committed #freedom

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. ↗

— Judi Dench

#censoring #first #i #into #lord

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#censorship #discussion #education #full #internet