Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Goldwater

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice

Barbara Amiel

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Barbara Amiel

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Barbara Amiel

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augusto Pinochet

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Arthur Ashe

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Arthur Ashe

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Coco Chanel

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Bruce Schneier

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

We tried everything we could to try to get him liberated well before the end of the 12-year sentence which he had received.

Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.

Charles Bukowski

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.