Community Quote by Wendy Griswold

“Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization”

— Helmut Walser Smith

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time,…

— Neri Oxman

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries…

— Emil Ruder

“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing…

— Jared Diamond

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

— Jane Jacobs

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England…

— John Adams

“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity, but that's…

— Anonymous

“In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the aristocracy often…

— Thomas Sowell

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Interestingly, relatively few of my correspondents were of the variety familiar to most authors, the users of block capitals and red ink.”

— Gary Sheffield

“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of the mind…

— Neil Postman