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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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"The only thing that is obscene is censorship."
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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
Choice
"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man."
Man
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
Dream
"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."
Action
"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
Poetry
"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."
Trust
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
Geography
"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
Life
"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
Life
"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
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