Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Peter

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Sue Johanson

They don't have the language or the skills or the knowledge - and if you put them all together, you have a complete communication block.

George Woodcock

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

George Woodcock

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

George Woodcock

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

George Woodcock

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

George Woodcock

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

George Woodcock

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Nicholas Burns

We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.

James Hansen

They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public.

John Carpenter

There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,

Matthew Aid

It's a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form.

Trent Reznor

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

William Douglas

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms.

Steve Fisher

Putting light on this topic at our high schools today is a better response than to censor the paper and tell our kids they can't talk about this issue.

Bahman Ghobadi

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

Bertolt Brecht

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bernard Hopkins

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

Chad Pennington

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charlie Munger

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Charles Frazier

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

Bob Marley

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Bill Vaughan

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Alexa Von Tobel

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Graham Boyd

Whether the police or a school want to search or seize a person, it has to be done in a manner that's reasonable. There was no reason to suspect any single person in that hallway, yet every single person in there was forced, with no choice, and seized by police in a completely unreasonable manner.

Maurice Cheeks

We're going to spread it around a little bit. We're not going to be a one-man, two-man team.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Eleanor Cook

They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones who let a pedophile go.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Ben Nelson

I told him (Bush) he really ought to suggest a compromise, ... I don't think their plan to get 51 votes for his plan is out there.

Brent Thompson

It ought to be done in a content-neutral fashion.

John Starnes

They're going to be short, but they ought to be pretty powerful.

Andrew Young

There's another side of the story that ought to be told.

Thomas Kean

People ought to stay out of our business.

John Husing

If it works the way everyone thinks it will, we should be OK.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.