Criticism Quote by Ellin Devis

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

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…

— Amy Heckerling

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

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

— Frank Zappa

“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

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run,…

— Katharine Whitehorn

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

— Brian Eno

[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

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

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Mark Kassen

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the…

— David Byrne