Top 60 Censor Quotes

Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.

Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people’s online activity.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

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

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I’ve calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

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

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.

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

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.

I don’t want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

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.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

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.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we’re asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

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.

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.

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that’s the most dangerous kind of censorship – that’s how hegemony works.

I’m not going to tone down my rhetoric, and I’m not going to censor myself in sharing what I believe to be the truth. People could either love that or hate that, but I’m not really interested in playing games in order to appeal to a broader audience.

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.

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 will never censor myself to please anyone.

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!

I censor myself all the time.

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

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

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

You can control and censor a child’s reading, but you can’t control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child’s heart.

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.

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.’

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I’m OK with it. I’m not OK with it in other places, but if the government’s going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

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.

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

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.

I don’t censor myself, but I don’t want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

I definitely have to censor myself a lot of the time because I’m used to just being a loose cannon, and I’m used to doing and saying whatever I want because I work on YouTube.

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.

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

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

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

I try not to censor myself at all.

Censor board should be abolished.

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor’s description and impose themselves on the world – ‘Ulysses,’ ‘Lolita,’ the ‘Arabian Nights.’

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.

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.

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

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

Secrets don’t stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn’t consistently said, ‘Don’t censor yourself, don’t worry about me’ – if he’d been anxious and worried about it – then it would never have gotten written.

All my films were based on sensitive issues, and they were passed without any problems. I give full credit to the Censor Board for being capable enough to do their work well.

While ‘Yaariyan’ took me time in pre-production, I also had issues with the censor certification.

I’m like Ann Coulter in a way. I talk in public and on the record the same way I talk to my friends in bars. I don’t censor myself.

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

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

The Censor officials who saw ‘Uthamaputhiran’ appreciated me a lot. All the credit should go to Mithran Jawahar and Dhanush.

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.

My own view is that only under very limited circumstances, and on a case-by-case basis, should we make advance policy decisions to artificially minimize information or censor it from the public’s view.

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.

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