Book Censorship Quotes
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Book Censorship Quotes & Sayings
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Censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books
with one hand. — Robin Morgan
with one hand. — Robin Morgan
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
— Bennett Cerf
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 read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.
— Frederick Lenz
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
— Isaac Asimov
I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
— Uday Kiran
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
— Georg Simmel
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
— Holbrook Jackson
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
— Geraldine Brooks
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
— Erica Jong
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
— Richard Cobden
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.
— Tony Hancock
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
— John Milton
I can't write this book. It's not politically correct yet
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ...
— Israel Zangwill
People die, but books never die.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.
— Charles Barkley
Do not be hot tempered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't join the book burners!
— Dwight D. Eisenhower