“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909): The Rejected Statement, Pt. I : The Limits to Toleration
1900s

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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