Banned books Quote by Craig Nelson

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind…

— Margaret Bald

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted in Literary…

— George Bernard Shaw

“For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.”

— André Gide

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your…

— Lauren Oliver

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

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

“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read.…

— Philippa Gregory

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg