Top Self Censorship Quotes

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Where did this absurd rule come from, and why did we so meekly obey it? Under a tyrannical regime--and the Ireland of those days was a spiritual tyranny--the populace becomes so cowed that it does the...

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complain...

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wo...