Famous quotes containing the word censures:
“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“We all cry out that the world is corrupt,—and I fear too justly,—but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that it is our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)