#censor

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#literacy #censorship

You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#censorship #censorship

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#comedy #self-censorship #tv #censorship

...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values... ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#censorship

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#public-opinion #censorship

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them.... ↗

— Giuseppe Borgese

#fascism #italy #mussolini #censorship

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#censorship #silence #voice #censorship

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

— Ai Weiwei

#freedom-of-speech #freedom

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