Quotes About Censor

#1. I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Michael Badnarik

#2. Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

Jonathan Ames

#3. You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

Queen Latifah

#4. I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Natalia Kills

#5. I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

Dana Carvey

#6. I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with the theology of many groups that I address; Jews, for example, who do not accept Jesus, or atheists.

Gary Bauer

#7. Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

#8. If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway.

Charlaine Harris

#9. Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I'm tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.

T. Scott McLeod

#10. Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Karl Kraus

#11. Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

Beverly Pepper

#13. After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Seth Godin

#14. The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first ... I want to watch it suffer.

Brad Stine

#15. 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 big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.

G.R. Reader

#16. 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

#17. Do not censor yourself. Let go of that part of your brain and just be.

Red Phoenix

#18. When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.

Andrew Ryan

#20. You can't censor people's dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock

#21. Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

David Davis

#22. The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

Craig Bruce

#23. Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

Sharon Van Etten

#24. Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.

Henry Rollins

#25. We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Salman Rushdie

#26. I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

Al Franken

#27. We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

Serj Tankian

#28. The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.

Thomas I. Emerson

#29. The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

Natalie Goldberg

#30. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

William O. Douglas

#31. Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

Terry Gilliam

#32. Strident minorities, acting on the growing disposition to censor their opponents, ensure that the deeper the question, the more likely it is to be settled by shallow arguments.

Roger Scruton

#33. Any fear around 'imperfection' is a censoring of life now, and when we censor life we simply cannot sense our innate natural joy.

Dhyana Stanley

#34. I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kathy Acker

#35. Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

Hillary Clinton

#36. I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

Bob Saget

#37. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#38. I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

Bassem Youssef

#39. I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

Ellen McLaughlin

#40. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

Willie Nelson

#41. Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Marlee Matlin

#42. I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

Rand Paul

#43. Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

John Barton

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

Elias Lyman Magoon

#45. I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Joyce Tenneson

#46. I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off ... I can't censor myself.

Tove Lo

#47. I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room. I shoot needless footage and then don't use it later on in the process.

Steven Spielberg

#48. The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

William O. Douglas

#49. He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#50. They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Charles Laughton

#51. Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Iggy Azalea

#52. Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

Karl Kraus

#53. The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Gerald McRaney

#54. We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

Eva Mendes

#55. My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

Scott Thompson

#56. Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

J.M. Coetzee

#57. I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.

Tove Lo

#58. If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#59. You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

Hilary Mantel

#60. People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'

Robin Williams

#61. It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Dario Argento

#62. Parker Brothers tried to introduce a German version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of the world, the German government tried to censor it. (Eventually the rules were rewritten so that players were "liberating" rather than conquering their opponents' territories.)

Steven Pinker

#63. As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

Alan King

#64. The worst form of snobbery is to deny information; to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable.

Matthew Blakstad

#65. If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

Harmony Korine

#66. Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor.

Sigmund Freud

#67. In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#68. I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

Lucinda Williams

#69. Always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.

Julia Cameron

#70. In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

Anthony Marra

#71. What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.

Suzanne Collins

#72. Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

Jon Stewart

#73. It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

George Jean Nathan

#74. All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

Rupert Murdoch

#75. The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Anurag Kashyap

#76. From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

Alberto Manguel

#77. I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

Grimes

#78. It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Walter Lippmann

#79. I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

Andy Dick

#80. You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble.

Craig Ferguson

#81. There cannot be a censor, or a censorship that does not degenerate into absurdity and corruption, there never has been, and there never will be and of all the excuses for it that there could be, that it protects superstition, and religious fanaticism would be the worst.

Christopher Hitchens

#82. I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Laura Poitras

#83. The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#84. Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Peter Jackson

#85. My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.

Megan Fox

#86. When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

Emily Blunt

#87. Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

#88. We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal.

Philip Slater

#89. There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

Federica Montseny

#90. Don't censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.

Jack Canfield

#91. Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.

Witold Walczak

#92. Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

Ambrose Bierce

#93. When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Frederic Chopin

#94. No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

Milan Kundera

#95. I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

Desmond Tutu

#96. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#97. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

Helene Cixous

#98. I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

Judah Friedlander

#99. Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

#100. Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

D.H. Lawrence