#censorship

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ↗

— Mae West

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

— William Westmoreland

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If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ↗

— George Orwell

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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship. ↗

— Mike Rogers

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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