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Censorship Quotes
"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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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 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."
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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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"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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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."
"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 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."
"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."
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"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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