What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
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.
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.