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

Other quotes by Heinrich Heine

The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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Poverty
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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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Impermanence
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Other Quotes from
Censorship
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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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Censorship

You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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Censorship

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. – Theodore Schroeder

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Censorship

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Censorship

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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable. – Walter Lang

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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. – Matthew Simpson

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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. – Jacob August Riis

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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that youre only as well as you are. – Anne Lamott

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Birthday