{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["burning","censorship","fire"],"id":4125,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a hand. The Oberpräsident of Schleswig-Holstein, a man named Kürbis (which is German for pumpkin) forbad its publication; it appeared the next day, entitled Die Westküste [The West Coat]. This too was banned, and for a short time my brother's wish was fulfilled and we edited Die Grüne Front. I, too, had the gratification of seeing my original suggestion realised whn it became, in due course, Die Sturmglocke. Finally, the Oberpräsident forbad us from publishing any paper at all which was not purely concerned with technical agricultural matters. So we rechristened it Der Kürbis, aand the leading article consisted of variations on the subject of pumpking as given in the encyclopaedia; we expatiated on how pumkins flourish best in plenty of dung and on the disagreeable nature of their blossom's scwent. Thenceforth the paper resumed its original name of Das Landvolk and that was that.","author":"Ernst von Salomon","tags":["censorship","germany","history","weimar-republic"],"id":4144,"author_id":"Ernst+von+Salomon"},{"text":"You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["censorship","control","critics","life","pain","philosophy","silence"],"id":7854,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"Calling a book 'Young Adult' is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["banned-books","books","censored","censored-books","censorship","corporate-america","forbidden-books","ya","young-adult"],"id":8282,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["anger","sadness","censorship "],"id":10758,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war's consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining…The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war's refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.","author":"Chris Hedges","tags":["censorship","media","patriotism","truth","war"],"id":19534,"author_id":"Chris+Hedges"},{"text":"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...","author":"Dwight D. Eisenhower","tags":["books","censorship","freedom","libraries","reading","thought"],"id":19719,"author_id":"Dwight+D.+Eisenhower"},{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Only the nonreader fears books. ","author":"Richard Peck","tags":["books","censorship","reading"],"id":23263,"author_id":"Richard+Peck"},{"text":"Calling a book 'Young Adult' is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days people simply say they like to read 'Young Adult' books. As if that were a topic. But that's the thing: Young Adult is not a topic, it's a level of censorship. Saying 'I like Young Adult books' is just another way of saying 'I like books that have been dumbed down for children. I like books with no big words and no difficult abstract concepts. Nothing that will strain my brain.' People like to brag that they used to start reading at an early age, as if that were a badge of honor, a sign of intelligence. Nobody brags about when they started to watch TV. But books are being dumbed down so much these days, it's really not a sign of great intelligence when you're a grown up and you struggle your way through Green Eggs and Ham.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["abstract-thinking","book","books","censoring","censorship","comedy","critical-thinking","green-eggs-and-ham","horror","intelligence","science-fiction","ya","young-adult","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature"],"id":23763,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":203,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}