Common Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are…

— Anthony Storr

There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to…

— Gunter Grass

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways…

— Jonathan Zittrain

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread…

— James Russell Lowell

Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous…

— J. Paul Getty

“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears.…

— William O. Douglas

Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter…

— Cass Sunstein

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

— James Russell Lowell

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

— Walter Dean Myers

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More