#censorship

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

#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

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The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. ↗

— Milos Forman

#because #censorship #character #control #destroys

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. ↗

— Mae West

#anymore #censorship #dignity #doing #films

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ↗

— Ice-T

#controversy #metaphor #racism #rap #censorship

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#books #censorship #censorship

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#digression #philosophy #reading #wit #writing

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. ↗