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

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"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."

John Milton, English Poet

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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

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"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

"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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"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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"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."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

Censorship, Truth, Fear, Ignorance

"The only thing that is obscene is censorship."

Craig Bruce, American Radio Host

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"I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship."

Joe Mantegna, American Actor

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The only thing that is obscene is censorship."

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"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy."

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

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