111 quotes found
“And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they cant do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they cant stop it. Despising and fearing knowledge,...”
“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
“If truth is not to be spoken, Sir, in a government, calling itself free, least it should be understood by the people, who are governed; and prevent their freely supplying the oil, that facilitates ...”
“The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.”
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a ...”
“When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.”
“You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.”
“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”
“La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen siendo. Claro, lo tienen que compartir con los grandes magnates de la tierra, esos que controlan el p...”
“I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.”
“Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real boo...”
“Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Can you prove that this mathematics is valid?A. Only to another mathematician.Q...”
“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to ...”
“AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words, they fled to find solace and redemption in the dark places of the...”
“Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.”
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.”
“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root.”
“I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, hes old enough to read it.”
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its s...”
