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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
Government
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
Government
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
Censorship
"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
Law
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
Time
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
Happiness
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
Reasoning
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
Ignorance
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
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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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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate 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."
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"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
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"I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit."
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