“Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.”

“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

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

“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

“They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”

“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?”