The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
I’m a bit of a goofball; I don’t have a lot of censors and I don’t have a lot boundaries and I’m trying to remember that the world is watching.
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.
You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
