#censor

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

— Joseph Brodsky

#censorship #illiteracy #reading #read

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war's consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining… The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war's refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#media #patriotism #truth #war #death

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#freedom-of-speech #freedom

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#censorship #confused #ever #first #fought

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination

The Thought Police: To censor and protect. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#police #protect #thought

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#criticize #nudity #okay #race #seem