"We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us."

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Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

— J. M. Coetzee