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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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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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"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."
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"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."
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"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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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."
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