It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
Neil PostmanTags: thinking censorship independent-thought technology-addiction
We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal.
Philip SlaterTags: censorship
A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.
Rikki DucornetTags: books censorship privacy good-and-evil intimacy de-sade
Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher HitchensTags: children censorship insincerity politicians sentimentality baby-kissing moral-blackmail
When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.
Nick CohenTags: censorship free-speech
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
United NationsTags: liberty communication censorship freedom-of-thought government freedom-of-speech information civil-rights human-rights encroachment surveillance freedom-of-opinion frontiers borders international-community
I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.
Gary WebbTags: truth censorship media journalism investigative-journalism
I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot of us have a bit of darkness within ourselves, some more than others perhaps, and bring it into the light and examine it and talk about this part of the human condition, then I think we will be living in quite a dangerous climate. I think that’s much more damaging for children.
J.K. RowlingTags: censorship childrens-literature
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
George OrwellTags: censorship 1984 orwellian orwell censoring
Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.
Ray BradburyTags: science imagination literature censorship
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