Censor Quotes - page 3

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 theoretical physicists censor the public's spontaneous visualizing response by warning us we must not try to picture the underlying nature of the world, whether atoms or quarks or preons, they are drawing upon an intellectual discipline devised by Calvin. Reality is beyond the senses; only the rigorously logical mind, leaping bravely into the intangible, can grasp it. No images.

Theodore Roszak

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

Elif Batuman

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

Malcolm McDowell

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

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Anurag Kashyap

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

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

I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

Ellen McLaughlin

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

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. (Federica Montseny)

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

Gerald McRaney

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

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

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

Craig Bruce

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

Jack Bowman

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Natalia Kills

You can't censor people's dreams.

Robyn Hitchcock

The objective of these barbaric acts is to terrorise, to paralyse through fear, to subjugate or to censor. Undisputedly after this act that traumatised the whole nation, fear is there. It is my responsibility to say that this fear must be overcome. And to say that this attack must continue to prompt free speech in the face of Islamic fundamentalism. We must not stay silent. And we must say what happened. We must not be scared of words: this is a terrorist act committed in the name of radical Islamism. Denial and hypocrisy are no longer an option. The absolute refusal of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed high and loud by whomever. Life and liberty are among the most precious values.

Marine Le Pen

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

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

Eva Mendes

Governments are trying to wrestle, how do you censor without being so heavy-handed that you make people really, you know, can't live their lives.

Noam Cohen

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

Michael Badnarik

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

Anaïs Nin

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