"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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"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

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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."

Mae West, American Actress

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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."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."

Joe Mantegna, American Actor

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"The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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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

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

Ben Lindsey, American Judge

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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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"I don't believe in censorship in any form."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

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