Prohibited Books

16Oct07

Notable authors on the Vatican’s list of prohibited books:

Francis Bacon
Honoré de Balzac
Giordano Bruno
Nicolaus Copernicus
Daniel Defoe
René Descartes
Denis Diderot
Desiderius Erasmus
Gustave Flaubert
Galileo Galilei
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Hobbes
Victor Hugo
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
John Locke
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jonathan Swift
Voltaire
Émile Zola

George Bernard Shaw said, “Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.”

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