Book-Burning/Quotes
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To read to many books is harmful."
—Mao Zedong
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"Burning is no answer."
—Camille Desmoulines, reply to Robespierre, January 7, 1794, on burning his newspaper Vieux Cordelier.
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages, they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."
—Sigmund Freud, 1933
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"The paper burns, but the words fly away."
—Akiba ben Joseph
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"...when you do become cemented into a position of power that rides on the suppression of human rights and universal freedoms, one of the important ways of demonstrating that all expression is ultimately under your control is with the unforgettable spectacle of a mass book burning. There is nothing like watching the last repositories of their culture, history and ideas being burned away to suck the spirit out of a repressed people."
—Cracked, "8 Unexpected Downsides of the Switch to E-Books" (#4: Book Burnings Will Have Less Visual Impact)
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