Forbidden Books Quotes

#1. A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#2. I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

Philippa Gregory

#4. Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books can warp space-time and tear the fabric of reality.

Daniel Harms

#5. 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

#6. When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say it was a popular success, the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books being the unofficial bestseller list of the day.

Sarah Vowell

#7. No, Fulton was colored. She understands this luminous truth. Natchez did not lie about that: she has seen it in the man's books, made plain by her new literacy. In the last few days she has learned how to read, like a slave does, one forbidden word at a time.

Colson Whitehead

#8. Any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional reasons of quality, subject matter or even volume, have been deemed unfit for survival under this specific roof.

Alberto Manguel

#9. I see you're looking at my cuff buttons.
I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.

Philippa Gregory

#11. In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

William Glasser

#12. I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

Zahi Hawass

#13. Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.

Seth Godin

#14. I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

Wayne Gretzky

#15. It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

Carl Sagan

#16. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.

Jonathan Swift

#17. Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.

Danny Tyran

#18. And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

#19. The nights are too long,' he told Missandei, 'and there is much and more to do, always.

George R R Martin

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

Oliver Markus

#21. All around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. No wonder we can't come in here. It's an oasis of the forbidden.

Margaret Atwood

#22. I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

Alan Bradley

#23. I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

Michael Douglas

#24. Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

Fran Lebowitz

#25. For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.

Andre Gide

#26. I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs dropping and bodies blowing up and war sucking.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#27. Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time - especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts - these are the books that become Eve's apples.

Terry Tempest Williams

#28. Strong in all the Broken Places

Ernest Hemingway,

#29. What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

James Morcan

#30. I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence.

George Saunders

#31. This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

Thomas Kinkade

#32. I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

Cassandra Clare