If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.
John BerryTags: libraries reading books library
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph BrodskyTags: reading books censorship illiteracy
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinTags: reading books censorship
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien HelvétiusTags: reading books censorship
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
Joseph Henry JacksonTags: reading books censorship
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. JennisonTags: reading books education censorship illiteracy
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine PatersonTags: reading books censorship
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. PeterTags: reading books censorship
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."
[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]
Tags: reading books censorship
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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