Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
“Yes. They're bringing in books from all over the world and burning them here.” — Sōsuke Natsukawa Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
“These people decry government overreach as they try to use the government to dictate what citizens can and cannot read.” — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
“Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that… — Craig Nelson Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“He would tell you to think, next time, before you blindly chase your ideology. He would ask you to think, not just… — Roseanna M. White Copy Share Image
“I'm not, like, a book guy, but isn't the point of all this book stuff like what Ms. Croft was teaching us… — David Connis Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
“Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it’s actually lucrative for me. We call… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it...… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
![“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.” quote by Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/392/lev-grossman-747_able_young-minds-young-brains-need-stories-an_716251.jpg)
