Logo
Quote by Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

Other quotes by Rebecca West

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. – Rebecca West

Category:
Birds
Author
Rebecca West
Read Quote

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

Category:
Astrology
Author
Rebecca West
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Censorship
category

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. – Arnold Bennett

Category:
Censorship

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. – William O. Douglas

Category:
Censorship

The worst part of censorship is XXX XXXXXX XX XXXXXXX. – Bumper sticker, author unknown

Category:
Censorship

Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? – Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Category:
Censorship

Random Quotes

A presidents hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Right, Rightness

One of the things Ive always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change. – Peter Steele

Category:
Change

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. – John Greenleaf Whittier

Category:
Heart

We dont communicate in full sentences anyway. We dont need all those words. – Shepard Smith

Category:
communication