#censors

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#classroom #criticism #evolution #prohibiting #theory

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#censorship #extreme #form

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#condition #first #progress #removal

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#censorship #writing #censorship

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. ↗

— Max Cannon

#censorship #going #people #promote #something

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man. ↗

— Milos Forman

#censorship #disappears #impose #man #moment

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#running

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice