Banned Books Week Quotes

Make a sound and I will blow your brains out all over the windshield. — Jack Bauer

It was good while it was good. — Jonathan Lethem

A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. — Jean De La Bruyere

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman

Oh, you have no idea how crazy I can be. Get us in or you'll wish you were dead. -Tom Sterns Chaysing Memories — Jalpa Williby

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson

Don't get mad, get even, — Robert F. Kennedy

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

Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom. — Neil Simon

One opal cloudlet in an oval form reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm which in a distant valley has been staged for we are most artistically caged. — Vladimir Nabokov

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me. — Judy Blume

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. — James Howe

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way. — David Eagleman

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. — Kurt Vonnegut