Spiritual-insights Quote by Anna Hammond

“Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.”

— Kee Malesky

“I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.”

— Andrea Cremer

“For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We…

— Bruce Schneier

“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information.…

— David Foster Wallace

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the…

— Matthew Battles

“Information is the religion of the modern world.”

— David Lodge

“The information age is converting a human from loving to logical and replacing his peace with the pain.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is a society that regards information, the ability to communicate instantly, as an entitlement.”

— Ted Koppel

“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support…

— Robert Trivers

“I wonder if this is what so terrifies people about digital technology, the idea that there will be a record of every moment, every…

— Caite Dolan-Leach