Quote by Heinrich Heine
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. - Heinri

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. – Heinrich Heine

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death. – Heinrich Heine

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Death
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. – Heinrich Heine

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Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Censorship

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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Censorship

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. – Nancie J. Carmody

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I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. – Kinky Friedman

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. – Charles Dickens

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow — perhaps it all will. – Albert Einstein

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