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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.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.