Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
Those who don't build must burn.
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?
I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
There is more than one way to burn a book.
Don't judge a book by its cover
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