#censors

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity. ↗

— Lee Child

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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#confuse #illusion #only #psychotics #reality

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

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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

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

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

— Ben Lindsey

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

— Joe Mantegna

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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#energetic #just #lane #like #people

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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