Quotes About Book Banning

#1. You've just got to do the best that you can.

Drew Barrymore

#2. The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

Phyllis Schlafly

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

Isaac Asimov

#4. When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know.

Philip Kitcher

#5. If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Mimi Sheraton

#6. 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

#7. I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Penn Jillette

#8. If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Malala Yousafzai

#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. If I had to honour the best author, would choose Jesus, Author of Life and Salvation.

Evans Biya

#11. God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.

John Beevers

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

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#13. Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure. This is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored.

Nostradamus

#14. Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

#15. 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