Bans Quote by Judy Blume

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

— Judy Blume

“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages would've been…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a…

— Judy Blume

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear…

— James Howe

My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad…

— Sherman Alexie

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

— Rebecca West

I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

— Rory Edwards

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

— Michael Berryman

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

“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