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You clap. The Censor wakes up. We all get into trouble. -- Craig Ferguson
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. -- Bennett Cerf
Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves. -- Emma Stone
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself. -- Michael Badnarik
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. -- Helene Cixous
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. -- Thomas Jefferson
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh. -- D. H. Lawrence
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing). -- Wilfrid Sheed
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
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
They can't censor the gleam in my eye. -- Charles Laughton
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. -- Earl Warren
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism. -- Claudio Hummes
A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. -- Spike Lee
We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor. -- Eva Mendes
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. -- William O. Douglas
I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity. -- Eva Mendes
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. -- Iggy Azalea
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
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. -- Jack Bowman
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. -- Hillary Clinton
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' -- Salman Rushdie
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
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
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
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
I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. -- David Byrne
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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
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
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. -- Regina Brett
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
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
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school. -- Karin Slaughter
You cant censor peoples dreams. -- Robyn
You can't censor people's dreams. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Don't censor incoming data through denial. -- Deepak Chopra
Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance. -- Jon Stewart
It's very difficult to censor anything anymore. -- Hugh Hefner
The Thought Police: To censor and protect. -- Craig Reucassel
The Thought Police: To censor and protect. -- Craig Reucassel
I sort of have to self-censor sometimes. -- Judah Friedlander
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. -- Karl Kraus
I will never censor myself to please anyone. -- Natalia Kills
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad. -- Dario Argento
They cant censor the gleam in my eye. -- Charles Laughton
Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden -- Karl Kraus
I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance -- Jon Stewart
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. -- John F. Kennedy
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret. -- Malcolm McDowell
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. -- Kathy Acker
The dirtiest mind in the world is the mind of a censor. -- Charles Coburn
I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games. -- Joyce Tenneson
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. -- Granville Hicks
I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel. -- Grimes
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor. -- Herbert Marcuse
Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself. -- Sharon Van Etten
I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity -- Eva Mendes
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical. -- Laura Poitras
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. -- Ben Lindsey
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship -- Ben Lindsey
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. -- Heywood Broun
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do. -- Al Franken
In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music. -- Jay-Z
People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.' -- Robin Williams
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] -- John F. Kennedy
What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy. -- Suzanne Collins
I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either. -- Bob Saget
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. -- Dario Argento
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress. -- Thomas I. Emerson
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. -- Rupert Murdoch
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. -- Peter Jackson
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own -- Elias Lyman Maggon
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits. -- Brian Eno
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. -- Anurag Kashyap
We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness. -- Neko Case
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. -- Lewis Wolpert
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. -- Federico Fellini
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
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
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
They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell. -- Tupac Shakur
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
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development. -- Ai Weiwei
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
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
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
Countries like Iran and China support an Internet Iron Curtain that would censor political dissidents and deny anonymous activity online through mandatory registrations of IP addresses. -- Marsha Blackburn
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
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
If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to be married as well? -- Erica Jong
The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers. -- Dessa Darling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards -- Philip Larkin
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
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
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
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor. -- Edward Albee
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
To be clear, Goodreads staff have not been deleting any posts. A value we've always had here is that we don't censor content (unless it's against our policies - eg porn, etc). [April 1, 2013] -- Otis Y. Chandler
None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
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
If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent. -- Michele Cassou
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss. -- Lech Walesa

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