27 Quotes About Book-burning
- Author Finn Murphy
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Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been largely accomplished in middle-class America and they didn't need the firemen. The interactive electronics took care of it without the violence,
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- Author Stewart Stafford
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Someone tweeted a quote of mine yesterday, and got abused so much for posting it they deleted it. Any doubts free speech is under attack everywhere now vanished for me right there. The crushing of my words in another's mouth left me speechless. Words, and the freedom to express them, are getting torched on a bonfire of inanities. Then the chilling hand of déjà vu claps us on the back and tells us not to concern ourselves with independent thought.
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- Author Tsukumizu
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Better watch her. She burns other people's books.
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- Author Christopher Marlowe
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!
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- Author Manu Herbstein
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In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous.""Men like that always are.
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- Author Alfred Whitney Griswold
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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.
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- Author Susan Orlean
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German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men.
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- Author Heinrich Heine
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It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.
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