Criticism Quote by 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

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

— Anonymous

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

— Jennifer Egan

“This fetishization of not censoring yourself, of being an ‘equal-opportunity offender,’ is bizarre and bad for comedy. When did ‘not censoring yourself’ become a…

— Lindy West

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which…

— George Eliot

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

— Frank Zappa

I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.

— Mark Kassen

I censor myself all the time.

— Wunmi Mosaku

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

— Granville Hicks

“And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a…

— G.R. Reader

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

— Spike Lee

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you…

— Stephen King