Book Banning Quotes
The best sayings about Book Banning that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
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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.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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There's more than one way to be a girl
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
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Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Don't join the book burners!
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
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The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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There is more than one way to burn a book.
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