Democracy Quote by Simeon Strunsky

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

— Doris Lessing

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute…

— Doris Lessing

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

“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.”

— Carl Sagan

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

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

— Dev Anand

In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.

— Martha Nussbaum

More people should use their library.

— Regis Philbin

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

— Bill Moyers

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

— Lech Walesa

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both…

— Lewis H. Lapham