Bears Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Laurence J. Peter

[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

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

— Granville Hicks

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the…

— Felice Picano

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the…

— Ellin Devis

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

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”

— Heywood Broun

“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

— Thomas I. Emerson

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

— Dario Argento

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

— Frank Zappa

In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great…

— Rick Scarborough