Censor Quotes · Page 3

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

— Charlotte Ritchie

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

— Neko Case

While 'Yaariyan' took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

— Iggy Azalea

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

— Spike Lee

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

— Robin Williams

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

— William O. Douglas

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

— Patti Smith

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

— Lewis Wolpert

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the…

— Walter Lippmann

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I…

— Scott Thompson

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's…

— Margaret Bald

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and…

— Lech Walesa

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I…

— Harmony Korine

“To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor…

— Otis Y. Chandler

The government, in conjunction with major tech companies and the media, has colluded to censor anyone who has challenged the consensus opinion…

— Clay Travis

The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The…

— Hugo Black

Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your weekend, scrubbing your Facebook page…

— Jared Polis

I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and…

— Tove Lo

When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we…

— Suzy Kassem

Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without…

— Edward Gibbon

“Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.”

— Sigmund Freud

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live…

— Tupac Shakur

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

— Maz Jobrani

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

— Michael Badnarik

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

— Bob Saget

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

— Elif Batuman

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

— Jay-Z

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

— Joyce Tenneson

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Granville Hicks

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

— Margaret A. Edwards

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity

— Eva Mendes

“always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.”

— Julia Cameron

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

— Anonymous

“Make this a rule: always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.”

— Julia Cameron

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

— Peter Jackson

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

— Jill Abramson

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

— Anurag Kashyap