"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." — John Dryden

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• As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of… — Hillary Clinton
• Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they… — P.G. Wodehouse
• Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. — David I. Rozenberg
• All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can… — Kurt Vonnegut
• I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any… — Robertson Davies
• I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the… — Kyle MacLachlan
• The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd… — Catherine Breillat
• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors… — Lydia Lunch
• The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly
• London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of… — Lynda Bellingham
• Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. — Unknown Author
• I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't… — Harrison Salisbury

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