“The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it far more easily than he can kill other people.”
“The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”
“How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?”
“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”