"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. Give reference? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them."None the less, I present these quotes on censors and censorship for you to mentally masticate.
Censor--A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose into other people's business.
~Bennett Cerf, The laughs on me.
The artist and the censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
~George Jean Nathan, The autobiography of an attitude
It is remarkable how many impure things a prude can discover that nobody else can discover.
~Reflections of a Bachelor (1903)
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
~Granville Hicks
I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book.
~James J. Walker, Debate on censorship, in New York Senate.
Censorship is the younger of two ugly sisters; the name of the older is Inquisition.
~Ludwig Börne
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