Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.
—Pete Hautman
A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.
—Ellen Hopkins
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough...
—Virginia Woolf
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a...
—Henry Steele
Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they’ve been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It’s...
—Phyllis Reynolds
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 and deny the power.
—James Howe
If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...
—Joseph Lewis
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
—Judy Blume
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
—Kurt Vonnegut
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
—Laurie Halse
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
—Salman Rushdie
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
—Stephen Chbosky
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy,...
—Anaïs Nin
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of...
—Terence McKenna
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—Germany Kent
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