Banned Quote by Vikram Seth Download Open image “I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.” — Vikram Seth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Banned Book Books Should Thinking
If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“You, dear reader, I am sure cannot imagine what it might be like to live in a world in which books are banned. For surely, such things will never happen in the Future? Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share
“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 fun. I’ve got Mein Kampf on my shelf, next to bible, quran and vedanta. You cannot fathom the wholeness of life, if you let expansion be dictated by law. Expansion can't be contained by law, concocted… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a banned book.… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“But what should I do?' Varun was saying. 'I'm not good for anything.' 'Write a book! Pull a rickshaw! Live! Don't make excuses,' said Dr. Ila Chattopadhyay, shaking her grey hair vigorously. 'Renounce the world like Dipankar. No, he's joined a bank, hasn't he? How did you do in your exams anyway?' she added." - Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy” — Vikram Seth Copy Share
“In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the song, I… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and cold. The much-vaunted heating of the truck is ineffectual. The wind prises through the cracks in the sides of the windows, and penetrates us to the bone. My feet are moist in my shoes, yet to take my socks off is to chill my… — Vikram Seth Copy Share
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth? — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we enter the slow theme-and-variations movement. How good it is to pay this quintet, to play it, not to work at it - to play for our own joy, with no need to convey anything to anyone… — Vikram Seth Copy Share
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave:… — Vikram Seth Copy Share
“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.” — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is… — Ali Sina Copy Share
Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to… — Sarah Brady Copy Share Image
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so… — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned. — Cobi Jones Copy Share Image
As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
