Mike

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman