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

  Chris Crutcher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship

• 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

  Tags in Censorship

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Minority

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Reading

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

  Tommy Smothers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Listen, Censorship

• 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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  Tags in Censorship, Mail

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

  Sir John Gilmour

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  Tags in Internet, Censorship

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Taste

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

  Robert Edmond Cormier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Boy, Upset

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Reads, Books, Reading

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

  William Westmoreland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Vietnam, War

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Journalist, Book, Books

• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

• 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

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• 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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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Reading, Criticism, Book, Books

• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  Nadine Gordimer

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