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Jay-Z
“In the end, you can’t censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010
Jay-Z
“And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010
Mark Twain
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894
Thomas Jefferson
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.” Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” - 1785
Sigmund Freud
“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“From this it follows that the censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762
George Orwell
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949
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