Quotes for Banned Books Week

September 30, 2015 Lark_Bookwyrm Miscellany 0

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Joseph Brodsky)

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Ray Bradbury)

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. (Laurie Halse Anderson)

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. --Ursula K. LeGuin