Censorship Quote by Anonymous

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

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

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

— Heywood Broun

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

— Granville Hicks

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

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

— Thomas I. Emerson

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

— William Hazlitt

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society…

— Richard Hofstadter

“This fetishization of not censoring yourself, of being an ‘equal-opportunity offender,’ is bizarre and bad for comedy. When did ‘not censoring yourself’ become a…

— Lindy West

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will…

— John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

“he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;”

— Lao Tzu

“In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line…

— Sigmund Freud