Censor Quotes
117 quotes by 96 authors
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for…
— John F. Kennedy
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Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
— Helene Cixous
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From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its…
— Alberto Manguel
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A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.…
— Dani Shapiro
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...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for…
— Milan Kundera
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When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing.…
— Frederic Chopin
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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
— Karl Kraus
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You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.
— Craig Ferguson
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force…
— Anais Nin
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To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and…
— J M Coetzee
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The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the…
— Natalie Goldberg
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In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.
— Jay-Z
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What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.
— Suzanne Collins
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Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.†Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing…
— Suzanne Collins
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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do…
— Charles Bukowski
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance
— Jon Stewart
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Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girlâ€? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic.…
— William T. Vollmann
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None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Who Wrote These Censor Quotes
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