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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.
  • Every burned book enlightens the world.

    Book   World   Censorship  
  • Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • 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 crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

    Book   Men   Rejection  
    Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
  • We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

    David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult
  • Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

    Book   Ideas   Censorship  
  • When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

    Lying   Book   Age  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation
  • Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

    Bullying   Book   Keys  
  • It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

    Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”
  • I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

    Book   Thinking   America  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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.
  • If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

    Wise   Strong   Reading  
    Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.
  • There's more than one way to be a girl

  • One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

    "My Life". Book by Golda Meir, 1975.
  • Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

    Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114
  • If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

    Wise   Strong   Book  
    Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.
  • 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.
  • Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

  • 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”
  • Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)
  • Art made tongue-tied by authority.

    Sonnet 66
  • Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

  • It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

    Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books
  • People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

    Memories   Book   Reading  
    "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)
  • 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.
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