Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l–ns, Smite h-p and th-gh, We’ll all be Kansas By and by. Smite, Smoot, for the Watch and Ward, For […]
Censorship Quotes
She flays with indignation haughty, The passages she thinks are naughty, but reads them carefully so that, she’ll know what to be angry at.
The internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
You hate to think you have to censor your language to meet other people’s lack of understanding.
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world’s greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
Testifying before a joint committee from both houses of Parliament in 1909, an acclaimed writer spoke passionately against censorship. In his remarks, he offered a famous observation: A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
Censorship and oppression prove that the word is enough to make the tyrant tremble – but only if the word is backed up by sacrifice. For only the word fed by blood and heart can unite men, whereas the silence of tyrannies separates them.
