Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. — C. Edwin Baker Copy Share Image
The people are the only censors of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin! — Mae West Copy Share Image
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it.… — Katie Waitman Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“The censors of our age do not yet burn books, they attempt to restrict speech in the name of "offense". The tactics… — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
It's difficult to do a love scene in Indian cinema. The censors are sitting on top of your head. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin. — Mae West Copy Share Image
“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can… — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
“When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
“It is all about a girl who is more interested in politics than in love... the Russian censors will not let it… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
![“When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short moments of sexuality, which makes it very confusing for the censors. If censors were merely human beings who watch a film ["Aquarius"] and come out with a conclusion…” quote by Sonia Braga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74a/sonia-braga-12256_aquarius_when-you-actually-see-it-it-is-quite-str_1197258.jpg)
