Banned Books Quotes
Collection of top 27 famous quotes about Banned Books
Banned Books Quotes & Sayings
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This, too, is for the better!
— Michal Maoz
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
— Stephen Chbosky
In India books are nearly always banned at the request of people who do not read but whose literary sensibilities are easily offended.
— Tavleen Singh
[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
— John Milton
Use your training, Maisie, your heart, your intuition, and your love for your father to forge a new, even stronger, bond.
— Jacqueline Winspear
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
— Ma Jian
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
— Chris Crutcher
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
— Shandy L. Kurth
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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.
— Kathryn Stockett
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned ... THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
— Ken Bruen
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
— Joseph Henry Jackson
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
— Will Cuppy
Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
— Lauren Myracle
I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?
— Cassandra Clare
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
— Judy Blume
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
— Cressida Cowell
Maybe those things bringing you joy do so because they are one of the many ways in which God wants to declare his glory through you.
— Emily P. Freeman
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
— Deryck Whibley