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Quotes about banned books -- utvalg .
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“Yes, books are dangerous.
They should be dangerous -- they contain ideas.”
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“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear
some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”
( Kurt Vonnegut )
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“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books
in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide
that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself
as a forbidden book.”
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“Because all books are forbidden
when a country turns to terror.
The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read.
These things always go together.”

“Yes, books are dangerous.
They should be dangerous -- they contain ideas.”

"..taught to fear some books and some ideas
as though they were diseases.”

BANNED: Kina sensurforvansker klassikere for barn:

China’s Ministry of Education recently introduced a new
school textbook to help fifth-grade students
“understand other cultures”

Included are four popular stories by foreign writers..
Robinson Crusoe, The Little Match Girl, and Vanka.
However, each story is censored to remove any religious
reference.

In Daniel Defoe’s 18th century classic novel, castaway
Robinson Crusoe discovers three Bibles inside a shipwreck,
which he then uses as his moral compass while stranded
on the island. However, the Chinese version eliminates
the word "Bible,”
instead noting that Crusoe happened upon “a few books.”

The original The Little Match Girl, written by Danish author
Hans Christian Anderson, includes the line,
“when a star falls, a soul goes to be with God.”
The redacted Chinese version, however, reads, “when a star
falls, a person leaves this world.”

Anton Chekhov’s story Vanka includes a passage where a prayer
is said inside a church, during which the word “Christ”
is mentioned several times. In the Chinese version,
that section is left out and every mention of the word Christ
has been erased.

In 2018, China’s ruling Communist Party implemented rules on
religious practice and announced a five-year plan
to make Christianity more compatible with socialism.
Efforts to make the faith more “Chinese” reportedly included
a rewrite of the New Testament using Buddhist scripture and
Confucian teachings to establish a “correct understanding”
of the text.

( kilde )