We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.