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Censorship
William Shakespeare
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Censorship
David Cronenberg
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Censorship
William Butler Yeats
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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Censorship
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.
Censorship
Samuel Johnson
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Censorship
D. H. Lawrence
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They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
Censorship
Charles Laughton
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This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
Censorship
British Board of Film
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Censorship
Thomas Bowdler
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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Censorship
Heinrich Heine
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Censorship
Harry Belafonte
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Censorship
Arnold Bennett
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun