Censorship and The Arts

"The mass decapitation on the Great Wall was the ultimate act of censorship. Together with rigid and traditional conservatism which shut out the world, that barbaric act deprived China of intellectual motion; of continuing education; and left her millions to wallow in unchanging ignorance and misery for centuries to come; until about 1912, as a matter of fact. That was the price of China's insular wisdom and paranoia."

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation that is afraid it's own people. President Kennedy

Reference: Censorship and The Art; The Signet Book of American Essays Edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss