Censorship Quote by Dick Cavett Download Open image “Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.” — Dick Cavett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Censorship Dirty Dirty mind Mind Psychology
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 Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little old lady… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship… — Seth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can't think of a way to… — Otis Y. Chandler Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
