The dirtiest mind in the world is the mind of a censor.

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

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

— Karl Kraus

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

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

— Emma Stone

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

— Granville Hicks

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows…

— Suzy Kassem

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

— Jack Bowman

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

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

— Peter Jackson

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

— Edward Gibbon

“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

One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In…

— Tariq Ali

“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

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

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

— Malcolm McDowell