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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"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."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"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."
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."
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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
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