Daily quote by Heinrich Heine

• Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
  • Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
    • Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
  • Variant translations:
  • That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.
  • That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.
  • Wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn.
  • 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.