Censors Quotes (10 quotes)

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
― Margaret A. Edwards

tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-express, love, love-story, lover, lovers, lovers-fictional, minors-rights, rite-of-passage, rites-of-passage, teen, teen-fantasy, teen-fiction, teenage-love, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents, teens, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers, young-adult-romance, young-adult-urban-fantasy, young-love, young-lovers

190 likes

Like

“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”
― Judy Blume

tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, censure, first-amendment, freedom-of-speech, freedom-to-express

65 likes

Like

“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

tags: books, censors, reader, readers

52 likes

Like

“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: action, administration, censor, censors, censorship, change, cheating, children, civil-liberties, civil-rights, control, corrupt, corrupt-politics, corruption, democracy, democratic, dissent, elect, elections, equality, fair, freedom, freedom-of-speech, future, government, hard, human-rights, injustice, justice, liberty, peace, people, politics, public, rebellion, regulations, revolt, revolution, rigged, rigging, risk, riskier, social-change, social-justice, stand-up, suppress, system, take-a-stand, unfair-elections, united, unity, vote, voting, world, youth

45 likes

Like

“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?"
"Hundreds of them."
"Do they hurt?"
"Of course. But you get over it. Critics are just people, lad. They're entitled to their opinions. They're not the enemy."
"Who is the enemy?"
"Censors.”
― Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree

tags: censors, censorship, critics, enemy, reviews

15 likes

Like

“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.”
― Judy Blume

tags: banned-books, banned-books-week, censors, censorship, judy-blume, library

8 likes

Like

“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”
― David Cronenberg

tags: censors, confusion, film, reality

3 likes

Like

“Censors are not virtuous but cowards, virtuous people can debate ideas that upset them and not demand opposing thoughts or words be expunged.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

tags: censors, cowards, erase, expunge, hide, virtue, virtuous

1 likes

Like

“If you seek to ever redefine the meaning of words to your benefit you are trying redefine speech and thus limit opposing thought, those who do so are censors and tyrants who should be opposed at every turn.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

tags: benefit, censors, oppose, redefine, speech, tyrants

0 likes

Like

“Americans aren’t accustomed to reading poems as words written to slip past a censor; readers in other places and times have read poetry that way always.”
― Jane Hirshfield

tags: activism, america, americans, censors, censorship, poem, poetry, writing

0 likes

Like

Censors Quotes

Browse By Tag