Banning Book Quotes

#1. Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

Tod Machover

#2. A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Isaac Asimov

#4. The lie is the future, one may venture to say [ ... ]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.

Jacques Derrida

#5. The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

John Galsworthy

#7. 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

#8. No one thinks you're a flower Vane. We've all smelled you after training.
-Gus, Let the Storm Break

Shannon Messenger

#9. What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what keeps me awake at night is general guilt!

Julia Sawalha

#10. He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. A SACRED OATH
A FALLEN ANGEL
A FORBIDDEN LOVE

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.

Stephen Cohen

#13. I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#14. If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee