Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

— George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

— 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

“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

“The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark,…

— George Orwell

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

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Michael Berryman

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

— Bennett Cerf

“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager

“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

“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers'…

— Judy Blume

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante