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

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

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet and critic

Almansor: A Tragedy, l. 245 (1823)

Alt trans:

• "Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people."
• "Where they burn books, they will also burn people."
• "It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people."
• "Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings."
• "Where they burn books, they also burn people."
• "Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men."
• "Wherever books are burned, sooner or later men are also burned."