Quotes About Banning Books

#1. Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

Anne F. Beiler

#5. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

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

Isaac Asimov

#7. It's hard to believe someone who walks around commanding so much attention with his acute cockiness, hard muscles, and tattoos would ever let someone like me bring him to his knees-and make no mistake, I bring him to his knees. I bring him to his knees, hard.

Skyla Madi

#8. You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

Jake Lloyd

#9. 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

#10. I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

Nick Flynn

#11. If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know them not and never wish to know them.

Jane Austen

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

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#13. The trouble with books is that you don't know what's in them 'till is too late

Jeanette Winterson

#14. We've lost the sense of our own divinity. We think that we're separate from God, but we can't be. We must be like what we came from, and we came from an infinite, loving, kind, beautiful Source. We've forgotten that.

Wayne Dyer