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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books
with one hand. — Robin Morgan

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. — Bennett Cerf

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to. — Studs Terkel

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature. — Frederick Lenz

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. — Isaac Asimov

For the curious reader; from the hopeful storyteller. Could we believe together? — Veronica Purcell

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. — Pat Conroy

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. — Elton John

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

It's been a pleasure, she-wolf.' He climbed out of the jeep before I could hit him. — Andrea Cremer

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. — Georg Simmel

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity. — Holbrook Jackson

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. — Richard Cobden

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. — Tony Hancock

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton

I can't write this book. It's not politically correct yet — Bangambiki Habyarimana

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ... — Israel Zangwill

People die, but books never die. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. — Charles Barkley

Do not be hot tempered. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. — Oliver Markus

Don't join the book burners! — Dwight D. Eisenhower

No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain. — G. Willow Wilson

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. — Judy Blume

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury