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“Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully…

— Sally Smith O'Rourke

“Money was the blood of civilized society, its currents running through everything and everyone. Where money was insufficient, things withered. People starved, sickened and…

— wildbow

“{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I was in…

— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

“You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than…

— Timothy Snyder

“Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization”

— Helmut Walser Smith

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and…

— Shaun Hick

“Drawn crudely in the dust of three window-panes were a swastika, a hammer and sickle, and the Stars and Stripes. I had drawn the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob…

— Cuthbert Soup

“We are presently dealing with the accumulation of a whole society that has worshiped its light side and refused the dark, and this residue…

— Robert A. Johnson

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

“I think little of pen and ink in revolutions.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find…

— Timothy Snyder