Heinrich Heine citations célèbres
Le Rabbin de Bacharach, 1840
“Ce n’était qu’un début. Là où on brûle des livres, on finit par brûler des hommes.”
Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher
Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
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Almansor, 1823
Gedanken und Einfälle
Heinrich Heine: Citations en anglais
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Almansor: A Tragedy (1823), as translated in True Religion (2003) by Graham Ward, p. 142
Variant translations:
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.