Zitat des Tages über Zensieren / Censor:
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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.
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.
They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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.
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 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.
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.
I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.
We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.
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.
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 mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
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.
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.
I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
You can't censor people's dreams.
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.
The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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.
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
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.