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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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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."
"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."
"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
"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."
"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."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
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"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."
"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do."
"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."
"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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