| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 23094 |
| QUOTATION: | What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. quoted in Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol. 3, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1957). Comment on the public burning of his books in Berlin in 1933. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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