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

John Pilger, Australian Journalist

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"The only thing that is obscene is censorship."

Craig Bruce, American Radio Host

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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."

"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."

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

"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."

"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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"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."

"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful."

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"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."