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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.
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