Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

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

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Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142 | 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.

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