#censor

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#education #ideas #education

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

Kids are living stories every day that we wouldn't let them read. ↗

— -Josh Westbrook

#censorship

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#forbidden #knowledge #nightshade #censorship

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#censorship #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

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#controlled #corporate #creative #down #here

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

— Kathryn Bigelow

#believe #censorship #form #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