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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." »R. D. Laing
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." »Mae West
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it." »John Gilmore
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it." »John Gilmore
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"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." »Tommy Smothers
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." »Plato
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"The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." »Noam Chomsky
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"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones
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"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'" »James Russell Lowell
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision." »Henry Kissinger
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"censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there." »Clare Boothe Luce
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"censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there." »Clare Booth Luce
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"censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there." »Clare Booth Luce
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"censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." »Clare Booth Luce
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" »Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards." »Charles W. Chesnutt
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"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." »Edmund Burke
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." »George
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"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment." »Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living." »Soren Kierkegaard
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