I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.
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So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
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I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
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[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
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Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
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Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memory, we will allow them to do it again next time.
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It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.
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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
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This could seem counterintuitive for many dictators running communist or socialist single-party states, but a thriving private tech industry can contribute invaluable tools to help you implement a controllable internet. The reason is fairly simple: the technologies that transform internet applications into more personalized, efficient and enjoyable experiences are usually the same ones that increase the capacity to monitor its users.
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If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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Irreverence is our only sacred cow.
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In front of me 327 pages of the manuscript [] (about 22 chapters). The most important remains - editing, and it's going to be hard. I will have to pay close attention to details. Maybe even re-write some things.. 'What's its future?' you ask? I don't know. Possibly, you will store the manuscript in one of the drawers, next to my 'killed' plays, and occasionally it will be in your thoughts. Then again, you don't know the future. My own judgement of the book is already made and I think it truly deserves being hidden away in the darkness of some chest.[Bulgakov from Moscow to his wife on June 15 1938]
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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author...
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
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