Censure Quotes

“Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.”

“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).”

“You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.”

“Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure.”

“The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.”

“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”

“History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.”

“You are nothing but trouble." If he'd meant to censure her, then he had the wrong girl. Trouble wasn't a dirty word when you were a Sweet.”

“Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.”