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Who the [censored] filters art
Its like claiming perfume is the substance of your [censored] fart

This the [censored] problem with society we don't give a [censored] that people run the show make us look like 7billion clowns all in a pretty row

Gremlins can [censored] us over each day but wish to display our artistic rebellion and feel the shackles of [censored] in action

Stand for this, never will I
I'll make censored seem like the worst [censored] word under the sky

So to the [censored] who censored my write you know I think you'll are [censored] [censored] with little might.
Go [censored] yourselves!

poem by Lindsay Maasdorp
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The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

quote by Milos Forman
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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

quote by Spike Lee
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The Censor

The Censor sits behind his desk,
And smiles a censored smile;
His great, blue pencil hovers o'er
Some masterpiece awhile,
Then swoops - oh, child of whose poor ravished brain?
Coldly another innnocent is slain!
The Censor is a murderer.
None knows his secret lair,
Nor all the dark and awful deeds
He does in ambush there.
No eye has seen his charnel-house - it's floor
With literary corpses littered o'er.

The Censor is a crocodile.
Beneath that slimy flood,
The Waters of Oblivion,
He seeks his livelihood.
His gloating eye marks children of my pen;
He draws them under from the sight of men.

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poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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Why to censor

The world is one.
One can go anywhere
as per sweetwill.
Why to censor?

It is the right of
everybody to express
views and news.
Why to censor?

One can eat drink
walk sleep as per
his conveniences
Why to censor?

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

quote by Ben Lindsey
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A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

quote by Laurence J. Peter
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There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

quote by Steven Spielberg
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People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

quote by Milos Forman
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The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

quote by Judi Dench
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You can't censor people's dreams.

quote by Robyn Hitchcock
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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

quote by Tim Robbins
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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.

quote by William Westmoreland
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Censorship is the height of vanity.

quote by Martha Graham
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They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

quote by Charles Laughton
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There should be no censorship of mail.

quote by Barbara Deming
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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.

quote by Kathy Acker
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

quote by Craig Bruce
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I don't believe in censorship in any form.

quote by Kathryn Bigelow
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