Title: 15 Quotes About Censorship And The Danger Of Banning Books
Headings: 15 Quotes About The Danger of Banning Books
15 Quotes About The Danger of Banning Books
1. “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
2. “If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."
3. “Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
4. “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.”
5. “I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”
6. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
7. “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
8. “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
9. “Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.”
10. "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
11. "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
12. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
13. “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
14. "Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all."
15. "The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

Content: Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.” — Judy Blume
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4. “ 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
5. “ I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut
6. “ If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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