"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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"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 ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."

Tommy Smothers, American Comedian

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"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

Don Johnson, American Actor

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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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Censorship, Libraries, Public

"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."

Mike Rogers, American Politician

Censorship,

"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."

Ben Lindsey, American Judge

Censorship, Christ, First

"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."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

Censorship, Freedom, Speech, Knowledge

"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."

Uta Hagen, German Actress

Censorship,

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

John Pilger, Australian Journalist

Censorship, Chance, Television

"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."

Robert Cormier, American Author

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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

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"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."

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"Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them."