Thomas Cahill Quotes

The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support out libraries.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

A library implies an act of faith.