Top Intellectual Freedom Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...