Quote by David Cronenberg
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality w

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

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When youre in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. Thats the consolation of philosophy. – David Cronenberg

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Perspective
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Technology is us. There is no separation. Its a pure expression of human creative will. It doesnt exist anywhere else in the universe. Im rather sure of that. – David Cronenberg

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Technology
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I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be – although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. – David Cronenberg

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. – Claude-Adrien Helvétius

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Censorship

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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Censorship

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

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Success tempts many to their ruin. – Phaedrus

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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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History

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

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I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. Ive definitely been through it – not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength. – Alison Lohman

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