Quotes About Banned Books Week

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

Pete Hautman

#2. As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

Andrew Wommack

#3. only one out of every ten aspirants actually gets around to establishing a startup business. Basically, it means that there is a huge gap between the dreamers from the doers.

Bill Robb

#4. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Judy Blume

#6. I have family in Oklahoma City.

Blake Shelton

#7. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#8. 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

#9. Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.

Luis Von Ahn

#10. Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

Myles Munroe

#11. I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress.

Kathryn Stockett

#12. I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

Emmitt Smith

#14. Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Gary Becker

#15. I had a dream to become a mounted policewoman.

Wendy E. Long

#16. God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. 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

#18. Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Stivers

#19. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Mary O'Hara

#20. It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

Eliot Pattison

#21. A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.

Thich Nhat Hanh