Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
It was only a generation ago that we learned that the burning of books may precede the burning of people.
There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
It was a pleasure to burn.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
The Popes of Rome engrossing what they pleased of political rule into their own hands, extended their dominion over men's eyes, as they had before over their judgments, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not;
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.
We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
