#censors

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship

They told me I was not to draw. ↗

— Mike Diana

#obscenity #censorship

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#free-speech #freedom

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#conspiracy-theories #democracy #dictatorship #freedom #human-rights

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#censors #condemned #erase #furiously #government

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship. ↗

— Michael Anti

#china #weibo #censorship

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

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