Censorship Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy. — Bud Grant

Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things. — Ai Yazawa

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. — Billy Collins

Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years. — Newt Gingrich

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys. — Zig Ziglar

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck — Alison Croggon

I would love to try action films. — Tracy Morgan

[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb. — John Milton

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not through much learning, but by the thorough possession of something. — Louis Agassiz

We are not 'censored' in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a 'Like' button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners? — Sergio Troncoso

Political correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill. — Wylie Dufresne

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead. — Catherine Gildiner

Our spirit knows we don't die nor are we born. If our ego knew what our greater self knows, it would not fear disaster ... Caught up in a new incarnation, one may forget their Always State, Form; perhaps forgetting everything from before. However, one is already always that! There is only eternity, knowledge and bliss!-Kuan Yin — Hope Bradford

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them. — Daniel Suarez

We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid. — Aleksey Igudesman