Quotes About Censorship

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

Kalau orang sudah mulai membakar buku-buku, akhirnya mereka akan membakar manusia.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas

Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too

Acolo unde c?rÈ›ile sunt arse, pân? la urm? vor fi arÈ™i È™i oameni.

There, where one burns books, on in the end burns men.

Wer Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt auch Menschen

Wherever people burn books, there, finally, they will also burn people.

Ahí donde se queman libros, acabarán quemando personas

Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.