Quotes on 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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