#censorship

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. ↗

— Judy Blume

#because #censorship #children #fear #kids

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

— Heywood Broun

#censorship #writing #censorship

One thing that success has taught me is censorship. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#me #one thing #success #taught #thing

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

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

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#self-censorship #censorship

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship

They told me I was not to draw. ↗

— Mike Diana

#obscenity #censorship