de Serizy was one of those women who claim to exercise a sort of sway over fashions and society in Paris; she issued her decrees, saw them received in her own circle, and it seemed to her that all the world obeyed them. She aspired to epigram, she set up for an authority in matters of taste. Literature, politics, men and women, all alike were submitted to her censorship, and the lady herself appeared to defy the censorship of others. Her house was in every respect a model of good taste.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of Plays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort and sensibility against the spiritual researches and speculations of bolder and too active spirits--it has become time to consider whether we should not seriously extend a principle, so grateful to the majority, to all our institutions.英文原著 · 《Censorship and Art》
We have seen, then, that Censorship is at least as necessary over Literature, Art, Science, and Religion as it is over our Drama,. We have now to call attention to the crowning need--the want of a Censorship in Politics.英文原著 · 《Censorship and Art》
One good result was produced by my adventure, which any censorship must have approved: it cured me of ever again trying _"Rouge et Noir"_ as an amusement. The sight of a green cloth, with packs of cards and heaps of money on it, will henceforth be forever associated in my mind with the sight of a bed canopy descending to suffocate me in the silence and darkness of the night.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
The almost limitless capacity of Puritanism for evil is due to its intrenchment behind the State and the law. Pretending to safeguard the people against "immorality," it has impregnated the machinery of government and added to its usurpation of moral guardianship the legal censorship of our views, feelings, and even of our conduct.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"The same Manilius states also, that the revolution of the great year is completed with the life of this bird, and that then a new cycle comes round again with the same characteristics as the former one, in the seasons and the appearance of the stars. This bird was brought to Rome in the censorship of the Emperor Claudius . and was exposed to public view.... This fact is attested by the public Annals, but there is no one that doubts that it was a fictitious phoenix only."[1]英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
I don't believe in censorship, but I'm a big believer in self-censorship.美剧 · 《The News Room》
And therefore, the words you used, and the skin you exposed, was problematic only due to the network's self-imposed censorship?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》