The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.
Censorship Quotes
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Oh, yes. One girl (at a protest) was wearing black tape on her mouth, presumably trying to make some point about the First Amendment. Honey, when you have to put the tape on yourself, then the only thing you’re saying is that you’re too silly to bother censoring.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? (speech for prosecution, Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, 1960)
Why have you come into my show, austere Cato? Pray, did you walk in merely for the purpose of walking out?
It is probably safe to say that since the late 1960s, nearly every major religious group in the country has tried to get some offending TV material altered or banned. So has every racial minority group and almost every important national-ethnic group.
