Fahrenheit 451 Book Quotes:

Those who don't build must burn.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fahrenheit 451 Book, Delinquents

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.35, Hamilton Books

topic: Mistake, Book, Insane, Fahrenheit 451 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

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Missing, Needs, Missing It, Fahrenheit 451 Book

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Men, Two Sides, Worry, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

topic: Book, Law, Laughed, Fahrenheit 451 Book

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

topic: Book, House, Burning, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Book Burning

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

- Ray Bradbury

source: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

topic: Children, Wall, Flower, Creative People, My Grandfather

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Book, Magic, Together, Fahrenheit 451 Book

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: School, Intellectual, Swimmer, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Racers

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Book, Gun, Men, Beatty, Loaded Gun

The books are to remind us what ***** and fools we are.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Book, Fool, Ass, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Inspirational, Book, Judging, Judging A Book By Its Cover, Rocky Horror

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Life, Knowing, Inspire, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.35, Hamilton Books

topic: Hard Work, Play, World, Fahrenheit 451 Book

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

topic: Long, Want, Enough, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

topic: Long, Coward, Way, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.42, Hamilton Books

topic: Reading, Remember, Fireman, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Two, Numbers, Quality, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Necessary Things

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

topic: Past, College, Intellectual, Fahrenheit 451 Book

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Sun, Fireman, Fahrenheit 451 Book

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Running, Book, People, Burglars, One Way

Don't judge a book by its cover

- George Eliot

topic: Book, Judging, Judging A Book By Its Cover, Rocky Horror, Deliberation

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

- Ray Bradbury

source: FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

topic: Philosophical, Thinking, Men, Fahrenheit 451 Book

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

topic: Book, Ninety Nine, Average, Fahrenheit 451 Book

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

topic: Technology, Government, Thank God, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Censorship In Books

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.79, Hamilton Books

topic: Silence, Down And, Speak, Fahrenheit 451 Book

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

topic: Giving Up, Men, Important, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Disgusted

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

topic: Home, School, Trying, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Home Environment

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

- Alice Hoffman

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: Book, Thinking, People, Fahrenheit 451 Book, Bradbury