#censor

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ↗

— Stephen King

#censorship #challenged-books #freedom-of-speech #freedom

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#british #censorship #creative #creative expression #day

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#censorship #censorship

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself. ↗

— Granville Hicks

#censorship

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability. ↗

— David Mamet

#genius #mamet #censorship

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ↗

— Tommy Smothers

#ideas #listen #only #people #right

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. ↗

— Earl Warren

#deeply #expression #free #free expression #heart

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#censorship #censorship

Poems are difficult to silence. ↗