Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Josiah Warren

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Kofi Annan

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Contemplating and meditating on the 'real-self' accelerates this process of self-development and makes liberation possible.

Orson Scott Card

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

We wanted to be able to take a librarian and turn them into a project manager.

We also benefited in the past year at all of our libraries from donations.

These Liberty girls, they don't have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!

Richelle Mead

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Umberto Eco

Libraries can take the place of God.

Umberto Eco

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Pete Seeger

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Paulo Coelho

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Peter Singer

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Quintus Ennius

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Primo Levi

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

Primo Levi

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Pope Benedict XVI

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Victor Hugo

When liberty returns, I will return.

Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

Robert Bly

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Rita Dove

Libraries are where it all begins.

Thomas Paine

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Thomas Sowell

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

Thomas Sowell

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.