Quote by Heinrich Heine
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human be

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine

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

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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