Burn Book Quotes:

There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Book, Reason, Burn Book

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Book, Men, Burn Book

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Ray Bradbury

source: FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Struggle, Martian Chronicles, Inspirational Reading

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

- Heinrich Heine

source: Almansor: A Tragedy l. 245 (1823)

topic: Reading, Book, Evil, Libraries And Reading, Censoring

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

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teacher, Book, Self, Burn Book

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

source: "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

topic: Running, Book, Ideas, Freedom Of Expression, Liberal Education

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

- Kendall Jenner

topic: Crazy, Thinking, West, Burn Book

I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me [Gretchen Wieners], but I can’t help it that I’m popular.

- Rosalind Wiseman

topic: Mean Girls, Sorry, Jealous, Jealous Of Me, Burn Book

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

source: Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.

topic: Book, Ideas, Views, Burn Book

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

- James Gleick

topic: Book, Soul, Enemy, Vengeful, Burn Book

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

- Michael Berryman

topic: Book, People, Strange, Burn Book

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. ... You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Country, Book, Fall, Burn Book

... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

- Bohumil Hrabal

source: Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Real, Book, Laughing, Burn Book

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

topic: War, Book, Men, Burn Book

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Book, People, Civil Rights, Burn Book

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

topic: Book, Fire, Race, Burn Book