Arbiter Quote by Edward Albee

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

— Laurence J. Peter

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it. Critics are…

— Katie Waitman

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Granville Hicks

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

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

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous