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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more w — John F. Kennedy
A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies yo — Ellen Hopkins
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. — Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening. — Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging mini — Ann Patchett
Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictab — Erik Pevernagie
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address th — James Howe
High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned ou — Steven Magee
Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about controlabout — Stephen King
Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such b — Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with n — Hazel Rochman
Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you — Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. — Oliver Markus
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profe — Steven Magee
It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason. — Alexander McCall Smith, The World According to Bertie
If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book woul — Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe aroun — Shandy L. Kurth