Heinrich Heine Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

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

by:	Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, literary critic
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Categories:	Censorship, Persecution, Prejudice, Prohibition
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Extermination of one thing can lead to the extermination of another. -- cal, Lewisville, Tx
Banning books is awful close to burning them. Hitler burned books written by any Jewish author and the rest is history. -- jim k, Austin
-- Mary - MI
He who forgets history is doomed to relive it. Idiots - with their societies - that burn books such as the Koran, the Bible or the Tanakh will also burn human beings. History is replete with such. -- Mike, Norwalk
When the solutions to society's ills is violence, expect no limit. Most of society's problems are due to the social engineering plans that just won't jive with nature. -- E Archer, NYC