#censor

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

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Irreverence is our only sacred cow. ↗

— Paul Krassner

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I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

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I don't believe in censorship in any form. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

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To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Only the nonreader fears books. ↗

— Richard Peck

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To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvétius

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All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

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