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«Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship»
Author: Ben Lindsey
| About:
Censorship
| Keywords:
censor, censors, censorship, Pilate, Pontius Pilate
«The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
| About:
Censorship
| Keywords:
censorship, defeats, discretion, exercising
«I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.»
Author: John Mortimer
| About:
Censorship,
Fear,
Law and lawyers,
Writers
| Keywords:
censorship, dread, fearful, flattered, in a way, primitive, print
«Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second»
«Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| About:
Censorship,
Confidence
| Keywords:
authoritarian, censorship, hallmark, reflects, regime
«Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.»
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
(Author)
| Keywords:
bigotry, block, blockage, blocks, censorship, decode, decodes, efficiently, etc., etc, Ideologies, integrate, integrates, signaling, signals, The Tunnel, transmission, transmit, transmits, transmitting, tunneled, tunneling, tunnels
«The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.»
Author: William Blum
| Keywords:
American history, artlessly, censorship, conspiracy, conspiratorial, de facto, fabric, facto, foreign affairs, functionally, functionally illiterate, handed, heavy-handed, illiterate, media, official, woven
«I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.»
«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.»
«If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
censorship, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, philosophical, Rome, Writings
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