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The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

— Noam Chomsky

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its…

— Kurt Andersen

“Luther's teaching was recognised by thousands to be no startling novelty, but something which they had always at heart believed,”

— Thomas M. Lindsay

“The Protestant reformation gave a big boost to literacy, spawned dissent and heresies, and promoted scepticism and refusal of authority that is at the…

— Christopher Lascelles

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was…

— James Gleick

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and,…

— James E. Burke

Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning.…

— John Shelby Spong

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

— Diana Butler Bass

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is…

— Rupert Murdoch

“Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced…

— Ian Lamont