#censorship

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it. ↗

— Robert Towne

#anything #censorship #changed #children #excellent

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. ↗

— Ice-T

#controversy #metaphor #racism #rap #censorship

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#books #censorship #censorship

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#digression #philosophy #reading #wit #writing

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#censorship

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#censorship #charity #end #home #like

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#biggest #censor #danger #enemy #free

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off. ↗

— Richard King

#cut #everyone #guy #his #ideas

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#censorship #extreme #form

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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