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  • [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

    Real   Book   Fire  
    FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013
  • The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

    Hate   Book   Ideas  
  • Every burned book enlightens the world.

    Book   World   Censorship  
  • Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

    Funny   Witty   Baby  
  • Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

    Lying   Book   Thinking  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow
  • Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

    Book   Ideas   Censorship  
  • Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

    "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
  • There's more than one way to be a girl

  • Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

    Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114
  • Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

    "Internet regulation 'a threat to civil liberties'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2000.
  • What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

    Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

    Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”
  • I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

    Book   Order   California  
    Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.81, Penguin
  • Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

    Book   Ideas   Jail  
    "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.
  • There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

    Running   Book   People  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

    "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.
  • Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

    Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “The Land”, p.17, Penguin
  • There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

    Running   Buddhist   Book  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't join the book burners!

    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

    Funny   Witty   Women  
  • Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

  • If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

    Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”
  • Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

    Believe   Book   Order  
  • There is more than one way to burn a book.

    Book   Way   Censorship  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

    "Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.
  • Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.

    Book   Egypt   Years  
    Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House
  • Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

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