Censur'd Quotes

#1. I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

#2. Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

George Ayittey

#3. We cannae just rush in, ye ken."
"Point o' order, Big Man. Ye can just rush in. We always just rush in."
"Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I guess so," Sophia shrugged, "but he wasn't the only one who learned something on that day. I learned I don't need to break bad men to make a better world. I just need to inspire good ones.

Kipjo Kenyatta Ewers

#5. You have delighted us long enough.

Jane Austen

#6. Together. Even in death. His fingers tightened their grip around her hand. A double statue of silver. Romantic. What would their faces show? Fear? Or love?

Cornelia Funke

#7. Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure animalistic strength. There was never any fear for him to hide.

Dan Krokos

#8. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Alfonso Ribeiro

#9. I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

Gary Hopkins

#10. Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

W.C. Fields

#12. There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

Bertrand Russell

#13. When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Jeanette Winterson