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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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

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

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

Only the nonreader fears books. — Richard Peck

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them. — Bernard Malamud

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

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. — Christina Westover

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

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

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy

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

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

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. — Chris Crutcher

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. — Michael Berryman

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. — Laurence J. Peter

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

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

Some books can only be written when winners turn into loosers — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Books can be burned," croaked Black.
"They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus. — James Thurber

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

[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

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. — Eugene O'Neill

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

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

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. — Heywood Broun

Art made tongue-tied by authority. — William Shakespeare

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. — John Milton

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

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship. — Victor Andres Triay

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

The glorious freedom of writing is a beautiful thing that must never be stifled by censorship. — Stewart Stafford

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

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. — Heinrich Heine

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

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. — Felice Picano