"Burn the books of scholars, and the empire will endure. Burn the knowledge of the people, and the empire will fall."
— Qin Shi Huang
Burn The Books Of Scholars And
Burn the books of scholars, and the empire will endure. Burn the knowledge of the people, and the empire will fall.
censorship knowledge power
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Attributed, paraphrased from debates recorded in Records of the Grand Historian
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