Top 239 Censor Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
My censor board is my own heart and mind. Our audience can say that the women in my films are bold or sensual, but never, ever vulgar.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.
I suppose maybe [Wilson] would be a better person if he were able to censor himself, but then he wouldn't be as interesting.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.
I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.
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.
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.
There's a tendency in the news media, on the part of some managers, to censor or block stories that don't fall in line with the message they want sent to the viewers.
I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.
...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.
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.
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.
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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.
We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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.
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
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.
They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.
I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.
It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.
The Censor officials who saw 'Uthamaputhiran' appreciated me a lot. All the credit should go to Mithran Jawahar and Dhanush.
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.
We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.
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.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
While 'Yaariyan' took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.
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.
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
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.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
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.
