Censors Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
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As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has…
— Hillary Clinton
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Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
— David I. Rozenberg
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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
— Robertson Davies
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I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States
— Kyle MacLachlan
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
— Catherine Breillat
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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
— Lydia Lunch
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The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none…
— Lynda Bellingham
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Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.
— C. Edwin Baker
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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same…
— Harrison Salisbury
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The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We…
— Ron Paul
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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.
— Audrey Meadows
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"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official…
— Kenny Smith
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There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
— Chris Crutcher
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A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one…
— Amy Heckerling
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Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you…
— Monica Ali
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I…
— Alan Furst
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