Censor Quotes

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Opinion, Office

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

Freedom, Government, Understand

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

Knows, Thinks, Expert

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins

Society, Yourself, Enemy

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

Before, Times, Ourselves

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.
Jessica Simpson

Less, Realize, Relate

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
Earl Warren

Heart, Free, Expression

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
Stephen Sondheim

Yourself, Down, Put

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
Craig Bruce

Thought, Police, Protect

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

Silence, Moment, Once

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

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

Love, Happiness, Happy

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
Eva Mendes

Love, Country, Quick

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
Eva Mendes

Violence, Seem, Race

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
Dario Argento

Sad, Films, Incredible

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Dario Argento

Old, Italy, Judges

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

Heart, Control, Her

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

Country, Dangerous, Seen

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

Mean, Others, Themselves

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

Judge, Feeling, Characters

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
William O. Douglas

Moral, Literature, Code

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

Government, Yourself, Find

You can't censor people's dreams.
Robyn Hitchcock

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
Kathy Acker

Work, Mean, Scared

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

History, Bad, Long

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
Ben Lindsey

Great, Jesus, Christ

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman

Good, Art, Done

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
Charles Laughton

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.
Audrey Meadows

Sorry, Blame, Problem

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.
Frederica Montseny

Position, Pretend, Spanish

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