Power of words Quote by Christopher Hyatt

“Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through the cardboard…

— Craig Padawer

“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called…

— Norhtrop Frye

“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until a poet…

— Sarah Lewis

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned…

— Margaret Bald

“..who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for an Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on their heads…

— Allen Ginsberg

“The ultimate form of censorship is assassination. ”

— George Bernard Shaw

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or…

— Rebecca West

“We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let conscience speak…

— Ben Okri

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that…

— E. F. Schumacher

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of…

— Julius Lester

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

— Richard King