restricted knowledge Quotes

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The printing of books is forbidden.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.

The public does not know what is possible. We do.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

We don't pretend to teach ye girls of the town anything more than dancing, or a little music perhaps ...

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.

If people really saw what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, then they might be marching in the streets to end wars. But you know, I think that no one ever sees because we're not allowed to see, and we're not allowed to publish what we do see. So it's quite difficult.

We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.