A Quote by Lech Walesa

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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Lech Walesa
Polish - Politician
Born: September 29, 1943

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

China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

Naval Ravikant

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

Hugh Hefner

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

Thomas I. Emerson

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

Spike Lee

People can't write whatever they want and get away with it. There is a censor for films and TV, there should be a censor for social media as well.

Vijayashanti

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

Jack Bowman

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

Helene Cixous

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

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

Iggy Azalea

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

Arthur Koestler

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.

Will Rogers

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

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

First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

Natalie Goldberg

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.

Susan Jacoby

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