"The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes."
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"The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress."
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"Free speech not only lives, it rocks!"
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"I believe in freedom of expression, I don't believe in censorship."
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"Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden"
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"No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will."
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"Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye."
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"Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights."
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"We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States."
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"I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor."
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"One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring."
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"Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves."
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"Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?"
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"We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves."
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"Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity."
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"I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing."
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"I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much."
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"We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print."
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"There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience."
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