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

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

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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Censorship, Books, Morality, Art

"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

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

Ben Lindsey, American Judge

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

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

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"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

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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."

Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher

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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

Censorship, Morality, Truth, Creativity

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Censorship, Elderly

"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."

Harry A. Blackmun, American Judge

Censorship, Discretion, Existence, Free speech

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