Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations or by individuals who engage in self-censorship. It occurs in a variety of different contexts including speech, books, music, films and other arts, the press, radio, television,...
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- Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. ,
- Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ,
- No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. ,
- The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ,
- The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ,
- If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. ,
- We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability. ,
- Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. ,
- Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. ,
- Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
