Censorship In Books Quotes - Page 2

• Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Book, Writing, Library

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Spring, Book, Men

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Book, Reading

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

  Pete Hautman

  Book, Ideas, Censorship

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• 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

  Book, Sight, Giving

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• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Secular Society, Law

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

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• The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Ideas, Burning

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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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.

  James Howe

  Bullying, Book, Keys

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• When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Book, Age

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Father, Ignorance

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• You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Freedom, Men, Political

  "On Compromise". Book by John Morley, 1874.

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Sadness, Thinking

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• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

  David Mamet

  Freedom, Media, Expression

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

  Ray Bradbury

  Technology, Government, Thank God

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• People die, but books never die.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, People, Censorship

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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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.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Real, Exercise, Censoring Books

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• Don't join the book burners!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Library, Censorship

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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