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Tag: books, censorship, reading

Laurence J. Peter

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

books, censorship, reading

Joseph Henry Jackson

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’?

books, censorship, reading

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

books, censorship, reading

Only the nonreader fears books.

books, censorship, reading

Katherine Paterson

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.

books, censorship, reading

Claude Adrien Helvétius

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

books, censorship, reading

Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

books, censorship, reading