“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.”
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Mortimer Adler
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like”
Abraham Lincoln
“Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate. . .”
Walter Lippmann
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