Oh yes. Id do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. Its too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
Censorship is almost systematically the weapon of first resort for governments in uncertain political situations. So not only are the famous writers and bold journalists in danger; at every level of public and private life the freedoms to think read or write are denied. In the absence of a free press other human rights abuses flourish unabated. Nothing is reported criticized questioned. The example of imprisonment torture or execution imposes a further silence. A blindly obedient mob mentality is encouraged driven by extremist religious or ethnic loyalties. The citizens do not know what is happening. Fear and ignorance permeate discussion.
All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf that work I abhor then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
Oh yes. Id do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. Its too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
As long as I don?t write about the government religion politics and other institutions I am free to print anything.
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other peoples business.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Censorship is almost systematically the weapon of first resort for governments in uncertain political situations. So not only are the famous writers and bold journalists in danger; at every level of public and private life the freedoms to think read or write are denied. In the absence of a free press other human rights abuses flourish unabated. Nothing is reported criticized questioned. The example of imprisonment torture or execution imposes a further silence. A blindly obedient mob mentality is encouraged driven by extremist religious or ethnic loyalties. The citizens do not know what is happening. Fear and ignorance permeate discussion.
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
All of us can think of a book… that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf that work I abhor then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
Censorship reflects a society?s lack of confidence in itself.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues at our peril risk and hazard.
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I am what I am and I have the need to be.