Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Quotations #068

"Wherever books are burned, men also, in the end, are burned." -- Heinrich Heine (1823)

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." -- George Bernard Shaw

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." -- Rebecca West (1928)

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." -- Wilson Mizner

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator." -- Francis Bacon, "Of Innovations" (1625)

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