C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cennete gitmek istedim otostopla,
Cinnete kadardı tüm yollar oysa,
Tüm hayatı okşamak istedim kedilerin şahsında
Tüm sarı, tüm kara, tüm yumuşak.
İlk sevgilimle bir kilisenin bahçesinde buluşurduk,
Bir mezarlıkta öpüştük ilk defa,
Rengârenk boncuklar saçılmıştı benden her tarafa,
Kapkaraydı ama toprak.
Binlerce ruhu taciz etmiş bir ilk aşk
Tanrım sorarım sana neye yarar?
İpek yolunda ipektim o zaman
Baharat yolunda baharat.
Aşk kırmızı atlastı,
Ten Greenwich başlangıç meridyeni
Yağmur yağardı, durmadan yağmur
Coğrafyadan da anlarım, hadi alkışlayın!
Keşke aşk şiiri yazsam
Ne güzel,
Aktarlara tarçın diye satardım
Ticareti de öğrendim bakın,
Hadi alkışlayın.”
Source: Ah'lar Ağacı
“Cenneti bilmeyen biri cehennemini asla terk edemez!”
“Cenneti cehennemi çok düşündün, dostum, boş yere kendini yordun, saçma sapan tanımlar yaptın, cenneti ve cehennemi öldükten sonraki bir boyuta, olmayan bir yere taşıdın! Hepsi burada! Dünyanın neresinde huzurlu bir köşe varsa cennet oradadır, Dünyanın neresinde kaos varsa cehennem oradadır, bu kadar basit!”
“Cenneti görmemiz için gözlerimizi açmamız değil, belki de kapamamız gerekir”
Source: Efrâsiyâb'ın Hikâyeleri
“Cennette ortaya çıkmak için doğanın güzellikleri arasında ortadan kaybol!”
“Cennette yaşıyorsan insanları cennetine davet et; cehennemde yaşıyorsan insanları cehenneminden uzak durmaları için uyar! İnsanların senin cennetine ihtiyacı var, cehennemine değil!”
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
Source: The Laugh of the Medusa
“Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.”
Source: The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader
“Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.”
“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”
“Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.”
“Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.”
“Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.”
“Censors are not virtuous but cowards, virtuous people can debate ideas that upset them and not demand opposing thoughts or words be expunged.”
“Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.”
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.”
“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”
“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”
“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).”
Source: The good word & other words
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is
snapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."
Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.”
“Censorship defeats the right to self determination.”
“Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.”
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."
[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]”
“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”
“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.”
“Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.”
“Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.”
“Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.”
“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”
“Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.”
“Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.”
“Censorship is an assault on our intelligence…not an insult.”
“Censorship is fear and Free Speech is bravery. The end.”
“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”
“Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.”
Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
“Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.”
“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
“Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.”
“Censorship is the height of vanity.”
Source: Blood Memory
“Censorship is the mother of metaphor.”
“Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.”
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”
Source: On Writing
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.”
Source: On Writing
“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
“Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.”
Source: Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism
“Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.”
“Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”
Source: On the Social Contract
“Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.”
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008