Censor Quotes

117 quotes by 96 authors

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
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. — Helene Cixous
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
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
...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
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
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. — Karl Kraus
You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble. — Craig Ferguson
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
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
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goatâ€™s back and… — J M Coetzee
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
In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music. — Jay-Z
What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy. — Suzanne Collins
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.â€ Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing… — Suzanne Collins
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
Iâ€™m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance — Jon Stewart
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say â€œgirlâ€? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, youâ€™re a saint or youâ€™re psychotic.… — William T. Vollmann
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
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

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