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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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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."
"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."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
"Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight."
"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
"When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail."
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