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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 dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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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 only thing that is obscene is censorship."
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."
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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."
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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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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
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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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"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
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"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."
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"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war."
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"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."
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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."
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"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."
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