#censors

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ↗

— John Mortimer

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Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#free-speech #self-control #dreams

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#reading #writing #life

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

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Censorship is advertising paid by the government. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#censorship #government #paid

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ↗

— Dick Cavett

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A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another. ↗

— Amy Heckerling

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