Ray Bradbury Quotes

There is more than one way to burn a book.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

It was only a generation ago that we learned that the burning of books may precede the burning of people.

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

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

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.