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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it

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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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. – Heinrich Heine

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

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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