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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty bookswith one hand. — Robin Morgan
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
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
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[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
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
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I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
