Books won’t stay banned Ideas won’t go to jail.
– Alfred Whitney
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- There are two books that I often travel with; one is ‘The Theory on Moral Sentiments’ by Adam Smith. The other is ‘The Meditations.’ It’s not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation. – Wen
- “Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.” – Jail Note Book of Shahid Bhagat Singh (1929)
- Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books. – Bell Hooks
- People who go to jail breed people who go to jail. – Andrew Barrett
- You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. – Neil Gaiman
- “He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.” – Milan Kundera
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. – John Ruskin
- God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West
- When you’re making the film, you don’t really think the audience; it’s only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you’re thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you’ve established. – Jonathan Glazer