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Book burning1 quote
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine · 1821Censorship1 quote
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine · 1821Freedom1 quote
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine · 1821French Revolution1 quote
Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created. — Heinrich Heine · 1834Power of ideas1 quote
Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created. — Heinrich Heine · 1834Totalitarianism1 quote
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine · 1821