He is always the severest censor of the merit of others…

“A woman of merit and worth need not knock off another's crown to feel highness.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

“Mr Darcy is my severest critic.”

— Elizabeth Bennett

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,

— Thomas A. Edison

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

— Abraham Lincoln

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

— Charles Buxton

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment…

— Witold Walczak

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

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

— Otis Y. Chandler

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

— Tim Robbins

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

— Granville Hicks

Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.

— Emma Stone

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to…

— William O. Douglas

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee