#censorship

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. ↗

— Peter S. Jennison

#censorship #education #illiteracy #reading #education

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#freedom #freedom

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#evil #first-amendment #freedom #freedom-of-speech #hubris

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#life #reading #life

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense. ↗

— John Christopher

#censorship

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror ↗

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

#censorship

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#dissent #free-expression #freedom #radical #rebel

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#censorship #i #many #parts #world

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