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

quote by David Cronenberg
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

quote by Granville Hicks
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

quote by Kate Adie
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson in letter to George Washington (9 September 1792)
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

quote by Thomas Jefferson
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

quote by John Gilmore
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Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

quote by Potter Stewart
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

quote by Karen Morley
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The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.

quote by John Gilmore
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I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

quote by John Hall
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The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.

quote by John Gilmore
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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

quote by Audrey Meadows
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The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

quote by Phyllis Schlafly
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

quote by Earl Warren
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After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

quote by Richard Reeves
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American Radio

More than ever, American radio
is a white male propaganda system
of pornpeddling, boozepushing,
call-censoring, animal flesh mongering
warhawks
and sports jocks.

poem by Saiom Shriver
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The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

quote by Phyllis Schlafly
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The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

quote by John Gilmour
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