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Dick Cavett

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

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

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"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."

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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."

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

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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."

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"I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit."

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

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

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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."

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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

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"The only thing that is obscene is censorship."

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