BANNING BOOKS QUOTES

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

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” – Heinrich Heine

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

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

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

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.” – Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

“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

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

“If you can’t read freely, the freedom to read carries little meaning.” – Walter Dean Myers

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” – Mark Twain QUOTES ABOUT FUNNY MOMENTS WITH FRIENDS TAGALOG

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot

“Censorship is the highest form of vanity.” – Martha Graham

“Oppressors have always understood the power of literacy, and freedom fighters have always been willing to die to bring books to their people.” – John Green

“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

“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t be forgotten. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold

“A world without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero

“Censorship is the tool of those who disagree with us, but we don’t ban books for people who agree with us; we ban books to silence people we don’t want to hear from.” – Sherman Alexie

“Censorship is the enemy of truth, for it prevents the free interchange of ideas that alone can lead to truth.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Lao Tzu

“Books are a mirror: If an ape looks in, an apostle cannot look out.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson