“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as fragile as a flower.”

“Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property...do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion. Take me if you dare! (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912)”

“Libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions.”

“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.”

“A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.”

“If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.”

“I don't think it was hate,' Castus replied thoughtfully. 'I think it was fear.”