QotD
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a
state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house,
what books he may read or what films he may watch. " -- US
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (b. 1908-07-02, d.
1993-01-24)
"You can't win, Book Banner. If you censor these books
they will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!"
-- from Unshelved,
2002-10-16 (comic within a comic; Dewey as a librarian Obi-Wan
Kenobi)
"Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying
to ban something -- book, film, play, pop song, whatever -- is
that far more people want to get hold of it than would ever have
done if it were left alone. Why don't the censors realise this?"
-- Philip Pullman,
"The censor's dark materials", Guardian, 2008-09-29
[I didn't mean to let so much of Banned Books Week slip past
before posting a relevant quote. Whoops.]