With the support of Scripture and the Fathers of the Church, we unanimously declare, in the name of the Holy Trinity, that all images of whatever material made by the cursed art of painters shall be rejected, cast out, and expelled with curses. Anyone in the future who dares to fabricate such a thing or venerate it or expose it in a church or private house, or possess it in secret, will be, if he is a bishop, priest, or deacon, deposed; if he is a monk or a lay person, he will be anathematized; and he will fall under the blow of the laws of the secular authorities as an adversary of God and enemy of the doctrines transmitted by the Fathers.
as quoted in A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, p. 97
Books are not destroyed as physical objects but as links to memory, that is, as one of the axes of identity of a person or a community. There is no identity without memory … at the root of book destruction is the intent to induce historical amnesia that facilitates control of an individual or a society.
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books (introduction, p. 13