Quotes on Book Burning

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.

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

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.