Censure Quotes (11 quotes)

“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”
― Judy Blume

tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, censure, first-amendment, freedom-of-speech, freedom-to-express

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“To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: blame, censure, criticize, get-even, implicate, punishment, retribution, revenge, richelle, richelle-goodrich, slur, vengeance

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“No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

tags: censure, character-flaws, criticism, double-standards, faults

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“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, appearance, appearances, argument, arguments, bazooms, berate, blame, blast, boob, boobs, bosom, bosoms, breast, breast-implants, breasts, castigate, censure, chastise, condemn, condemnation, cosmetic, cosmetic-surgeries, cosmetic-surgery, criticism, criticize, debate, debates, denounce, denture, dentures, denunciation, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disfavor, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, distaste, false-teeth, find-fault-with, funny, hair, hilarious, hooters, humor, humorous, humour, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypocrites, implant, implants, joke, jokes, knockers, lay-into, looks, natural-hair, objection, quotations, quotes, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, revile, satire, slam, surgeries, surgery, take-to-task, thumbs-down, weave, weaves

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“Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves.”
― Alain Badiou

tags: art, censure, democracy, empire, jouissance, modern-art, theses

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“Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.”
― Ben Hecht

tags: benefit, censure, criticism, dislike, forgotten, habit, instruct, like, praise, write, writer, writing

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“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).”
― Lauro Martines, Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

tags: censure, context, historians, history, memory, moralists, propagandists, the-past

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“Il faut que vous compreniez que notre civilisation est si vaste que nous ne pouvons nous permettre d'inquiéter et de déranger les minorités. (...) Les gens veulent être heureux, d'accord? (...) Les noirs n'aiment pas Little Black Sambo, brûlons le. La Case De L'oncle Tom met les blancs mal à l'aise, brûlons le. Quelqu'un a écrit un livre sur le tabac et le cancer des poumons? Les fumeurs pleurnichent? Brûlons le livre.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: censure, litterature, livres, minorities

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“En général, la parole ne se donne pas ; elle se prend.”
― Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher, Procès verbal

tags: censure, culot, droit-de-parole, liberté-d-expression, liberté-d-opinion, subversion

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“Praise and censure went down exactly the same drain, though he [Andrew Haswell Green] admittedly preferred the friendly trickle of the former.”
― Jonathan Lee, The Great Mistake

tags: censure, praise

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“You're not his lover, then. I can tell that by the look in those pretty blue eyes. He would have snuffed out that anxiousness and you'd be more like a cat. Victorious that you'd snared the neighborhood tom."
"Okay, that's enough." Cleo found her voice again. The woman was anything but grandmotherly, and if she wanted to talk about cats, she was plenty catty--- although Cleo found offense to that on behalf of Murphy, who was now perched on the car's dash, staring at Mrs. Tremblay with an aura of censure.
Censure away, Murphy. The woman deserves it.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

tags: catty, censure, sass

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