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  censorship:
Suppression by authority of material
considered immoral, heretical, subversive,
libellous, damaging to state security, or
otherwise offensive. It is generally more
stringent under totalitarian or strongly
religious regimes and in wartime.

to censor:
In Psychology, the psychic
function that prevents unacceptable
unconscious impulses from reaching the
conscious mind. This function leads to
repression of intolerable ideas, memories,
or impulses.

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

Nadine Gordimer
South African writer.
Censorship ... is a brand on the imagination that
affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher and writer.
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of
morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
Social Contract

 

Francis Bacon
English politician, philosopher, and essayist.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
De Augmentis Scientiarum