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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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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. – William O. Douglas

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

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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. – Leonardo DaVinci

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You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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