Book Banning Quotes



It not until July 5, 1727 that another imperial decree was issued Ibrahim Muteferrika establishing the first Turkish printing press.


Germany had been a world intellectual center of science, arts and letters. After the Nazi’s came to power most of the great German Intellectual leaders like Albert Einstein—both Jews and non-Jews—left Germany. A few like Roth remained, but those espoused by the Nazis were second rate and the “feebelists of dilettantes.”


For many years, the English Customs Service would prevent books and other literature from being brought into the country if the authorities thought that they were seditious or unwholesome. The right to publish and the right to read was stronger for locally produced sedition or pornography than for imported where there were severe restrictions until recently. America had similar restrictions at the time.