#censorship

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#censorship #reading #censorship

Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#censoring #reading #censorship

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers? ↗

— Juvenal

#censorship

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? ↗

— Joseph Henry Jackson

#censorship #reading #censorship

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#censorship

The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#culture-wars #political-correctness #procrustes #censorship

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship. ↗

— Michael Anti

#china #weibo #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

There should be no censorship of mail. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#mail #should