There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the…

— Judy Blume

“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.”

— Calvin W. Allison

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

— Pat Paulsen

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

— Jiang Wen

I'm gonna sing those songs that offend the censors.

— Nickelback

“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics may be…

— Carmine Savastano

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages…

— J. M. Coetzee

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you…

— Stephen King

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and…

— Alan Furst

The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

— D. H. Lawrence