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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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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."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing 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."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
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"I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth."
"I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it."
"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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