From my quotes of the day email today....
Posted because I had not known the twist of this, and because I liked the quotes.
Thomas Bowdler was born at Ashley, England on this day in 1754. In 1818 he released a volume of Shakespeare's plays, Family Shakespeare, with some ten percent of the original language removed. He said, "Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family." In point of fact, his contribution to the work is, itself, a delicate misrepresentation. It was his sister Henrietta that actually did the editing, but they put Thomas' name on the project to avoid letting it be known that Henrietta understood the naughty bits that she expurgated. (Bowdlerizing the Bowdlers?)
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks, 1901 - 1982
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
- Potter Stewart, 1915 - 1985
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
- Tom Smothers
The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893 - 1957
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
- Dick Cavett
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Thomas Bowdler was born at Ashley, England on this day in 1754. In 1818 he released a volume of Shakespeare's plays, Family Shakespeare, with some ten percent of the original language removed. He said, "Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family." In point of fact, his contribution to the work is, itself, a delicate misrepresentation. It was his sister Henrietta that actually did the editing, but they put Thomas' name on the project to avoid letting it be known that Henrietta understood the naughty bits that she expurgated. (Bowdlerizing the Bowdlers?)
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks, 1901 - 1982
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
- Potter Stewart, 1915 - 1985
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
- Tom Smothers
The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893 - 1957
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
- Dick Cavett
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