Access to information Quote by Marilyn Johnson Download Open image “Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.” — Marilyn Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Access to information Democracy Foundation Freedom Information Librarian
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Public access to government information is a fundamental prerequisite to a functioning democracy. A democratic system is based on the notion that government legitimacy… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.” — Wendell Ford Copy Share Image
“Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.” — Carl Malamud Copy Share Image
“Maybe it begins the day you pledge allegiance, face the flag and suddenly clutch your left clavicle because you find a tender puff of… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.” — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their… — Andrew Nikiforuk Copy Share Image
Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities. — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. — Pravin Lal Copy Share Image
I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy… — Victor C. Ferkiss Copy Share Image
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Everybody is looking at their base business and saying, "What else is it? Sure, we do this, but while we're doing that, what else… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
