Quotes About Censorship

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Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,

Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.

Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange

Chiunque detenga il potere può controllare anche il linguaggio, e non solo con le proibizioni della censura, ma cambiando il significato delle parole".

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

What doesn't polite society, in all seriousness, want to discuss? Sex, money, political corruption, bodily functions, religion, loss and despair? These have been the very subjects attracting writers of comedy since Aristophanes penned "Lysistrata" as a vehicle for the young Joan Rivers.

But in the rest of the world, the illness came to be called the Spanish flu, to Spain's consternation. After all, the other countries of Europe, as well as the United States and countries in Asia, were hit too in that spring of 1918. Maybe the name stuck because Spain, still unaligned, did not censor its news reports, unlike other European countries. And so Spain's flu was no secret, unlike the flu elsewhere.

Political correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.

A one malobrojne, sto su nesto i saznali, al' nisu znali vesto da skrivaju saznanja ta, no su ih, srca nabujala sva, prostome puku obznanjivali, - njih su, otkad za svet se zna, razapinjali i spaljivali.

The limits of Mao's system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want to be able to censor it. They say they want to be a technological leader of this century, but they restrict innovation. They say they want a modern society, but they cannot relinquish their hold. Those who rule from Beijing want the benefits of change, but they do not want change itself.

Damn the expurgated books! I say damn 'em! The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

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

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Censorship offends me.

Clutch some hope from fear — read banned books.

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