Burn Book Quotes

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

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.

... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.