Top 239 Censor Quotes & Sayings

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

I censor myself all the time.

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.

You cant censor peoples dreams.

You can't censor people's dreams.

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

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

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.

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

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

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

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.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

Why censor yourself? You got to tell the truth as you see it.

By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.

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

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

When you're a father you censor yourself. You get just as angry with a child but you don't want to say, "What the filth and foul and I'll filth and foul, filth and foul and, yeah, ya filth and foul face, and I'll filth and foul, foul, filth!" You don't want to say that to a child so you censor yourself and you sound like an idiot: "What the... Get your... I'll put a... Get out of my face!"

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

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

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

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.

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

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it’s really a false start is when you start … it’s hard to put into words.

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.

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

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

They cant censor the gleam in my eye.

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

Censor board should be abolished.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

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

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

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

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

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.

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.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

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

If we say Facebook doesn't agree with our rules in our country we are going to stop Facebook in our country. We censor a lot of things, why not censor Facebook?

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

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

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

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

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

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.'

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.

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

I try not to censor myself at all.

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