"Where they have burned books,
they will end in burning human beings."
-Heinrich Heine
"For books are not absolutely dead things, but. . .do preserve as in a
vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred
them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those
fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to
spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless warriors be
used, as good almost kill a Man a good Book; who kills a man kills a
reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book,
kills Reason itself, kills the Image of God, as it were in my eye. Many
a man lives a burdon to the Earth; but a good Book is the precious
life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasures up on purpose to
a life beyond life."
John Milton
Areopagitica
"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
-May Sarton
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