Respect the censors, they know things which you do not.
Censors are the fulcra of liberty.
Only the dangerous leave their speech uncensored.
Self-censorship enables the art of learning.
Thought is the censor of activity.
Teaching is wise censorship.
Wise censorship is educative.
Legal activity is the censor of destructive thought.
He who keeps his peace keeps the peace.
Denial is not rebuttal.
A censor is average but not mean.
Public figures need not be censored.
The ship of state is censorship.
Truth does not lie in a censored text.
Censorship maintains complacency among the faithful.
Excision brings precision.
Does a sheep quibble over words?
Does a hawk care what name its prey has?
The dying do not tell the truth until they have despaired.
Only the foolish think their words are free.
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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Long interview from 1998
http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
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