[Nazi colonel Vogel is torturing Henry to get answers]
Colonel Vogel: Tell me about this miserable little diary of yours. The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why?
[He slaps Henry in the face with his glove]
Colonel Vogel: Why?
[He slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel: What are you hiding?
[He slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel: What does the diary tell you that it doesn’t tell us?
[He tries to slap him again until Henry grabs ahold of his hand]
Professor Henry Jones: It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them.
The above quote comes from the film classic, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
To commemorate Banned Book Week (in 2 weeks), Google put together a compilation of the most commonly challenged and/or banned books.
Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
As a side note, economist Israel M. Kirzner has said that the reason he chose Ludwig von Mises as his dissertation chair is in part, because Mises had more books in his office relative to his peers.