Books Quote by Anonymous

“Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them. The rest…

— M.Z.Riffi

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as…

— Anonymous

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

— George William Curtis

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze…

— Alister E. McGrath

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder,…

— Clive James

Good books enlighten the mind, bad books corrupt the soul.

— Aisha

“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they…

— David Hume