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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

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  The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

  Tommy Smothers

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  Tags in Listen, Censorship

• You have to be mad in the language you’re mad in.

  Chris Crutcher

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  When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R.R. Martin

  Topics in Fear

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• Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

  Wilbur Smith

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  Tags in Censorship, Minority

• Did you ever hear anyone say ‘That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me’?

  Joseph Henry Jackson

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  Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Baby

  Tags in Censorship, Telling

• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in Censorship, Reads, Books, Reading

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

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  Tags in Censorship, Journalist, Book, Books

• If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Tags in Censorship, Reading, Criticism, Book, Books

• 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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• There should be no censorship of mail.

  Barbara Deming

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

  Steven Spielberg

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  Tags in Censorship, Taste

• The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

  Sir John Gilmour

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  Tags in Internet, Censorship

• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It’s the adults who get upset.

  Robert Edmond Cormier

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  Tags in Censorship, Boy, Upset

• Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

  C. Edwin Baker

  Topics in America

  Tags in Government, Advertising, Censorship, American

• 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.

  Kathy Acker

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  Tags in Major, Censorship, Minor, Sorts, Uglier, Something, Know

• 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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• 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.

  Kathy Acker

  Tags in Censorship

• I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

  Kathy Acker

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