#censorship

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#censorship #writing #censorship

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#running

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. ↗

— Bruce Coville

#control #dictatorship #information #tyranny #information

They told me I was not to draw. ↗

— Mike Diana

#obscenity #censorship

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. ↗

— Christina Westover

#books #censorship #christina-westover #freedom-of-the-press #passion

We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ↗

— Jay-Z

#change

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

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 know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#censorship #cervantes #don quixote #good #had