← Back to quotes

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

Play · Tragic play

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

In the original German

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende M.enschen

Heinrich Heine
1821
★ 6.9
Provenance
Citation
Heine, Heinrich. Almansor. 1821.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Another quote aboutTopic·Book burning

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Censorship