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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
Censorship
William Shakespeare

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

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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William Butler Yeats

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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
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Klemens Von Metternich

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No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
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Samuel Johnson

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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D. H. Lawrence

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They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
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Charles Laughton

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This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
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British Board of Film

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
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Thomas Bowdler

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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
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Heinrich Heine

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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Harry Belafonte

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Arnold Bennett

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