Banned Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

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

— Michael Berryman

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

— Nadine Gordimer

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

— Bennett Cerf

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

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person…

— Lois Lowry

“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 is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,…

— Salman Rushdie

Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of…

— Murong Xuecun

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

— Alanis Morissette

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

— George Bernard Shaw