A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove a toilet joke at the dinner table or around relatives. But with them it takes on moral weight. It’s a very damaging mistake: the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same as taste itself. It confuses censoriousness with a faculty of judgment that links the aesthetic to the moral sense.
n+ 1 MagazineTag: censorship taste tasteless
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
Lev GrossmanTag: books censorship ideas growth young-minds
I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.
Andrea CremerTag: knowledge censorship forbidden nightshade
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
Ray BradburyTag: censorship public-opinion
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. MartinTag: censorship
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
David LeavittTag: censorship quote writer leavitt
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
George OrwellTag: censorship science-fiction big-brother
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Mark TwainTag: censorship
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned.
John FarndonTag: books philosophy censorship ideas communism nazism
Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
Judy BlumeTag: censorship first-amendment freedom-of-speech censor censure censors censoring freedom-to-express
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