“ A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear. Ellen Hopkins
“ I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me. Judy Blume
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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 s… Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“ You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media] Germany Kent
“ The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypo… Anais Nin
“ Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it. Isabel Allende
“ Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel… Virginia Woolf
“ Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying worl… Terence McKenna
“ If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you must guard your liberty, and you must not le… Joseph Lewis
“ And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they can’t do anything about historical objectivity; they can slow it down, but they can’t stop it. Despising and fearing knowledge,… Arkady Strugatsky
