#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

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#censorship

Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#satire #censorship

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

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

— Andrea Cremer

#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

#censorship #censorship

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#fuck #government #profanity #censorship

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#dirty-words #censorship

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#manifesto #censorship