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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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"Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier."
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