“Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.” StillsIdeasUseSchoolCultureForceTeachClearWorstEssentialsCriticismCorruptionAliensTortureMaskIngredientsCensorshipCowardiceSubmitUse Of Force Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra
“The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.” MayMadeWarEndsArtistCultureGrowthFreedomExpressionIndustryArgumentBeing The BestParadoxCensorshipFreedom Of Expression Author:Michael Kimmelman
“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.” Has BeensBookIdeasPlayFilmArtistCultureTerribleSpeechPunishmentAttractiveCensorshipAggressionSkepticismSculptureSkepticalCapital Punishment Author:Rebecca West
“Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.” MenWarUseCultureTermLevelsPovertyDangerPersonalityMassIntellectualStressTerrorEntertainmentMeaning Of LifeGrayMotivatedCynicalCensorshipProtectiveBourgeoisIndirectUtilitarianismMass Culture Author:Andrei Sakharov
“If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.” IfsArtPoliticalValuesCultureRiskGroupsExpressionSatireCensorshipDiverseOffensiveDiscourseBansPolitical DiscourseDiverse Society Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.” ChildrenBookSeemsCultureGirlSawsViolencePerceptionReasonableExposedCensorshipRuinedPornographyPopular CultureGood GirlProtecting Children Author:Molly Ivins
“... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.” BookSelfCultureTearsTitlesCensorshipExaminationLyricalMickeySelf-examinationLesbianism Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.” ChristianLawPoliticalCultureReadingReligiousBordersCensorshipBiasQuotingPolitical Culture Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.