You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
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.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Every burned book enlightens the world.