Banned Book Quotes

#1. I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.

Sjon

#2. Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Isn't he beautiful? Hadley says longingly.
Yes, I think, but not in the way she obviously sees him. He's beautiful in the way the apple in the banned book my father read to me ages ago was beautiful to the princess.
Tempting but deadly.

Trisha Wolfe

#4. If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Clyde Brion Davis

#5. In your heart there's a way around the criticizers, minimizes, and judgmental people that hurt you. When it's understood their self-confidence is very low. It's then you can pray for them, that they find peace, and allow all righteousness to come from Jesus Christ. Amen.

Ron Baratono

#6. In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

Ruth First

#7. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.

S.J. Parris

#8. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.

Elizabeth Scott

#9. To leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Elizabeth Bowen

#10. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Herman Melville

#12. The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Oscar Wilde

#13. When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It's a genre of movie I like very much.

Olivier Martinez

#14. 'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Michael Ignatieff

#15. The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

Charles Colson

#16. In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I've known him to do it'
'Do what?'
'Not strike lambs

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. For some reason, humans needed things that weren't true.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#19. When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.

Craig Nelson

#20. A person is on the right track if he develops his gift and turns it to minister to God

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Leonard Susskind

#22. A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Rebecca West

#24. I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Jung Chang

#25. Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

Lauren Kate

#26. We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

Sufjan Stevens

#27. Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Thomas Hobbes

#28. Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading?

Ann Patchett

#29. All women are created equal Then some become marines.

Katy Perry

#30. The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned

Geert Wilders

#31. Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Jung Chang

#32. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#33. I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do.

Peter Max

#34. 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.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#35. Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Ken Adam

#36. Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#37. Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.

Judy Blume

#38. I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

Vikram Seth

#39. Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

Oliver Markus

#40. The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

Carolyn Mackler