WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:27 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg burn – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Heine, Heinrich -- Almansor: A Tragedy, l. 245 (1823) https://wist.info/heine-heinrich/1816/ https://wist.info/heine-heinrich/1816/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1816 Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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

Heine - burn human beings - wist_info quote


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."
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