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“People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.”

People Thinking Men Moments Disappear Censorship Unleashed

Author:Milos Forman

“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.”

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Author:Milos Forman

“You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.”

Years Boys Adults Upset Censorship

Author:Robert Cormier

“When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.”

Writing Book Problem Challenges Decades Censorship

Author:Judy Blume

“The only thing that is obscene is censorship.”

Censorship Obscene

Author:Craig Reucassel

“I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.”

Art Facts Albums Warning Censorship Resent Parental Sticker

Author:Jeff Buckley

“When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.”

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Author:Stephen Chbosky

“I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.”

Should Kind Government Common Products Common Sense Producers Target Censorship Sensitivity

Author:Lee Child

“There should be no censorship of mail.”

Should Censorship Mail

Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.”

Thinking Cases Media Best Things Censorship

Author:Kathy Acker

“I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.”

Want Persons Forget Brain Serious Office Sticks Never Forget Censorship

Author:Alan Furst

“Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.”

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Author:Asghar Farhadi

“The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.”

“There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.”

Censorship Korea

Author:Bong Joon-ho

“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”

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Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

“I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.”

Believe Mean Censorship Believe In Me

Author:Joe Mantegna

“What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.”

“In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.”

People Thinking Audience Events Information Journalism Journalist Relevant Censorship

Author:Michael Kinsley