Anticensorship Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to…

— Charles Dickens

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing…

— Isaac Asimov

“Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door…

— Isaac Asimov

“The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Immoral books are the ones that show the world their own shame.

— Anonymous

“Them papers are clean as a unicorn's snatch!”

— Ginn Hale

“I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.”

— Anthony Burgess

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence