Books Quote by Guy Standing

A rich and diverse commons lowers the cost of living for those who use it. And throughout history, it has been those on low…

— Guy Standing

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read…

— Melinda Gates

“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values…

— Zadie Smith

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention…

— Garrett Hardin

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people…

— Lawrence Lessig

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized…

— James A. Michener

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas…

— Sanford Berman