#censor

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ↗

— Anatole France

#chance #did #ever #free #god

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. ↗

— Spike Lee

#censor #even #gets #lot #ourselves

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. ↗

— Maya Lin

#china #chinese #family #get #i

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#censorship #christ #first #great #jesus

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#because #being #censored #ever #feel

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

#censorship #charity #end #home #like

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. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— Joe Mantegna

#censorship #i #me #mean