Books Quote by Charles Dickens

“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he…

— United Nations

“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

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

— William Wordsworth

“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

“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas…

— John F. Kennedy

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis

“I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them at a…

— Sarah Vowell

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be…

— James Boyle

“The right to be attributed as an author of a work is not merely a copyright, it is every author’s basic human right”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The act of writing anything can be as much consent as creation.”

— Charles Baxter

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the…

— Seneca