Top 52 Burn Books Quotes
#1. 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.
Tommy Douglas
#2. There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
Ray Bradbury
#3. Wherever people burn books, there, finally, they will also burn people.
Heinrich Heine
#4. Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
Heinrich Heine
#5. Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
James Gleick
#6. It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
Heinrich Heine
#7. 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.
Dhani Harrison
#8. 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.
Elizabeth McCracken
#9. No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain.
G. Willow Wilson
#10. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
#11. Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Michael Berryman
#12. The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
#13. Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
#14. They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity. What do you see when you look at me? Daddy?
Laura Gentile
#15. Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too
Heinrich Heine
#16. You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?
Ray Bradbury
#17. If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.
Lynn Johnston
#18. Books burn too easily, and they don't keep you warm.
Maria Braun
#20. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
Steven Hardesty
#21. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! Kill!
William S. Burroughs
#22. Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother.
Alice Hoffman
#23. As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404
Hilary Mantel
#24. To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
Philippa Gregory
#25. That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
Heinrich Heine
#26. To ACCEND (ACCE'ND) v.a.[accendo, Lat.]To kindle, to set on fire; a word very rarely used. Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.Decay of Piety.
Samuel Johnson
#27. Noooo They can't burn up Books aren't any good when they're well done You can't cook them that long
Mizuki Nomura
#28. Civilization is knowledge, even more than it is urbanization, for you cannot have the latter without the former. Everything builds on everything else. And the knowledge of civilization is kept in repositories known as ... LIBRARIES, and if books burn, civilization burns with them.
James Turner
#29. When i discovered how precious a book was, i burn a candle on a book every night.
Oladeji Jeremy
#30. The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books.
Neil Gaiman
#32. If you want to hurt me fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I'm sleeping. But nobody nobody screws with my dog.
Molly Harper
#33. Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.
Ray Bradbury
#34. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.
A.K. Kuykendall
#36. To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#37. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
#38. We already have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as any scientist thinks is safe to burn.
Bill McKibben
#39. My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are.
Ray Bradbury
#40. I asked of the limitless sunshine
How to shine with the dawn's glowing light;
No answer came back from the sunshine,
But my soul heard a whisper, "Burn bright!
K. Balmont
#41. 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.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#42. 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.
Heinrich Heine
#43. Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.
Ray Bradbury
#44. In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice sometimes had to look at him obliquely or with her eyes half closed or through a pin hole on a piece of cardboard. Straight on would burn her retinas.
Carol Anshow
#45. Burn the books and trust the Book; shred the papers and hear the Word.
Salman Rushdie
#46. An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust. -page 62
Jennifer Lee Carrell
#47. Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?
David Nicholls
#48. I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
William Shakespeare
#49. You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.
Lara Biyuts
#50. I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!
William Temple
#52. You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
Cornelia Funke
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