#ip

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#public-opinion #censorship

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them.... ↗

— Giuseppe Borgese

#fascism #italy #mussolini #censorship

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#censorship #silence #voice #censorship

La femme ne peut être émancipée que lorsqu'elle prend part dans une grande mesure sociale à la production et n'est plus réclamée par le travail domestique que dans une mesure insignifiante. ↗

— Engels Friedrich

#gender-equality #labour #production #equality

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#rixon #eternity

Every advantage is temporary. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#advantage #relationships #strategy #strategy

He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird ↗

— Karen Chance

#paranormal-romance #vampire #socialism

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together -- in misery, but happy to not be apart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#misery

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#jev #patch-cipriano #silence #silence

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. ↗

— Holbrook Jackson

#censorship