Condemnation Quote by Augusto Pinochet

“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on…

— Libba Bray

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

— William Shakespeare

The library is my cathedral.

— Barbara Bretton

Your library is your paradise.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Libraries can take the place of God.

— Umberto Eco

“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe the library…

— Josh Hanagarne

“...any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional…

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor…

— Germaine Greer

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“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

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be…

— Libba Bray