J. M. Coetzee Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. February 9, 1940
Birthday: February 9
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.
topic: Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption
