BANNED BOOKS WEEK QUOTES

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson

“The first thing they did was to make me stop rocking the boat.” – Harper Lee

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.” – Michel de Montaigne

“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” – Tommy Smothers

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.” – Potter Stewart

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” – Mark Twain

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.” – Charles Bukowski

“Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.” – Phil Kerby

“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde

“I am burning my libraries because I no longer trust words.” – Susan Sontag

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door… Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” – Ray Bradbury LOVE OF MY LIFE QUOTES FOR GIRLFRIEND

“Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Books are dangerous not because of what is in them, but because of what they make you become.” – David Wallace-Wells

“The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.” – Brooke Shields

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami

“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” – John Green

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde

“Banning books is just another way of banning imagination.” – Chip Kidd

“Censorship is the tool of the closed-minded, the ignorant, and the fearful.” – Dave Pilkey

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak because a baby can’t chew it.” – Mark Twain

“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.” – Nadine Gordimer

“Censorship is an attitude of mistrust about what the people can think, hear, read, see, or experience.” – Ritu Ghatourey

“Knowledge is power. If you don’t read, you have no power.” – Walter Dean Myers

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the illusion of knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Books are a form of success. If I die with no books in my hands, I consider myself a failure.” – Carl Reiner